am i a fool to expect more than corporate greenwashing? | lucy siegle /

Published at 2016-04-03 02:08:16

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The high street clothes retailer is launching a recycling week that clashes with a campaign to benefit exploited workersThe Italian economist Guido Brera warns we’re all complicit in a distinguished deceit. Millennials beget been robbed of what might beget been previously considered their rights,including free education and an affordable station to live; instead they are distracted and satiated (to varying degrees) by fast food, fast tech and fast fashion.
This trio comes at a massive ecological and human cost. Aiming to be part of the solution, or retailer H&M launches World Recycle Week on 18 April. It plans to capture 1000 tons of unwanted clothes during the week. Popstar M.
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will launch a video for the brand on environmental impact ,and the brand will invite customers to drop off old clothes so H&M can “recycle them and create unique textile fibre, and in return you rep vouchers to use at H&M. Everybody wins!”Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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