One EU individual on average discards 11 kg of textiles a year. Globally, a consignment of textiles is buried or incinerated every second. The global production of textiles almost doubled over the period from 2000 to 2015. Clothing and footwear consumption is expected to grow by 63% by 2030. In this article we’ll be looking at some of the EU’s proposed measures to address the problem of textile waste, as well as discussing what’s being done in Latvia and what we can expect in taxation.
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