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So i buy from my own money fabrics, machines and also i pay handy people to make clothes out of it. I can not sell them all. My Risk. And as an additional punis
by okr 2mo ago
So i buy from my own money fabrics, machines and also i pay handy people to make clothes out of it. I can not sell them all. My Risk. And as an additional punishment i lose the right to do whatever i want with my own property? Mad world.
- tacomagick 2mo agoSo I buy my own factory and produce my own pollutants and I dont have the right to do whatever I want with them, mad world.
- no-name-here 2mo agoAnd per OP article: 1. This only applies to companies above a certain size. 2. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of textiles are destroyed each year in the EU before use. 3. In Germany alone, companies destroy tens of millions of garments per year under just one of the existing justifications for destroying garments before use.
- mistrial9 2mo agoit is not the year 1800 any more, some things have changed
- psalaun 2mo agoOn a planet with infinite resources it may be a mad world. On one where oil will be depleted at some point and fast fashion brands are collectively creating thousands of disposable plastic clothes models in dozen of millions of nuits per month, it's common sense to limit the madness of this industry
- loeg 2mo agoOur planet has effectively infinite resources. We're probably past peak oil extraction and have plenty left, nevermind that the vast majority of clothes aren't made of plastic. This policy is dumb as hell.
- dennis_jeeves2 2mo agoAgreed. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.