Existing discarded clothing could supply all future garment manufacturing needs
Peter Majeranowski · Threading the future of circular fashion with Peter Majeranowski of Circ · Sep 7, 2023 · at 17:53
Peter Majeranowski, CEO of Circ, discusses the total potential volume of textile waste in landfills replacing virgin materials in apparel.
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“We believe we have all the clothes we need to make all the clothes we'll ever need, and when you look at the scale of this industry, it's massive, and a lot of it ends up in landfill within a year or two, and so there's a lot of material there that is in a linear system that really should be recirculated so we can continue to use those resources.”
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