Every year, nearly 100 billion items of clothing are produced – and 65% of them end up in a landfill within 12 months. New technologies in textile recycling may be able to curb that waste – while producing a host of sustainable materials.

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Report: Dave Braneck
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge
Fact Check: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Ém Chabridon

Read More:
McKinsey - Scaling Textile Recycling in Europe
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/r...

NY Times - Will We Ever Be Able to Recycle Our Clothes Like an Aluminum Can?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/st...

EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles https://environment.ec.europa.eu/stra...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Textile waste's global impact
02:47 How do you actually recycle clothes?
03:50 New approaches to textile recycling
07:41 What else needs solving?
11:41 Can we even recycle all the clothes we make?