Recherchetool für Materialien From the clothes shopping frenzy to the old clothes garbage mountain: Why Recycling Doesn't Work at Fast Fashion Fast fashion, cheap fashion, short worn and quickly disposed of. There are still textile mountains. The providers now promise their customers sustainability and recycling of worn old clothes. What good is the promise of the suppliers to produce new clothes from old textiles?ZDFzoom author Anne Kauth pursues the promises of the industry and finds that the given fast fashion increasingly overwhelms the old clothes recyclers. The disposal system is about to collapse. According to her research, it is hardly possible to make new ones from discarded fast fashion clothing. In the Bulgarian capital Sofia, she traces the illegal sale of old textiles. At the end, the clothes end up in home stoves – for heating. The author also asks: What measures is the policy taking to address the problem of textile waste? Are there alternatives to fast fashion consumption? Scope: approx. 28:55 minreference : free of charge on YouTube back
