“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is bringing in cleaner-burning trucks than we have now, but the existing trucks have to die first—and that’s 10 to 20 years before they get off the road,” says Cohen. New York is catching up to the rest of the country, according to INFORM...
Specializing in making cards of various form and invitations, the 22-year-old artisan likes to collect knick knacks from old items that were thrown away. Keen to give new life to old things, she finds herself saving decorative fake diamonds from old worn-out shoes, bags a...
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Textile waste (clothes, shoes, bedding, curtains and other waste of textile products) cover approximately 8% of the whole communal waste flow in Lithuania [8] compared to 9% in the EU [9]. According to the most recent available data, the recycled waste of textile in Lithuania decreased fro...
1.3. Policy Initiatives The increased consumption of clothes of the last decades is nowadays correlated with evidence that clothing has the fourth-highest impact on the environment [3]. Thus, policy initiatives have been considered, but only in the last few years (Figure 5). The current Waste ...
clothes, which no longer fit the elder brothers/sisters. However, even such obvious reuse should be handled with care; shoes are fitted to the users’ feet and may cause problems when used by others. There is a large used-clothes market in all countries, even in high-income economies. ...