Metro Vancouver officials want people to think before throwing out clothes
Clothing is clogging up British Columbia landfills reaching nearly 20 million kilograms of textiles a year from Vancouver residents alone.
Metro Vancouver regional district is pushing people to think not just twice but three times before tossing out their clothing.
Jack Froese, the chairman of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Committee, says people buy about three times as much clothing now as they did back in the 1980s.
He says much of the fast fashion, which is relatively cheap to buy, ends
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