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Major fast-fashion brands launch trial to collect clothes waste next year

Inside Retail

During the year-long trial, Re-viste plans to set up dozens of containers in churches, stores, shopping centres and streets to collect the waste in bags and take it to plants for sorting. Once the legislation comes into force, fashion companies estimate that Spain will need one textile waste container for every 1,200 residents.

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From “fast fashion” to “fast thrifting”: When will we learn?

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The combination of cheap and accessible products, relentless marketing that promotes the idea that new purchases bring happiness, planned obsolescence encouraging frequent replacements, and the convenience of online shopping fostering impulsive buying has created a cycle of excessive consumption and disposal over the past few decades.

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ThredUP Forges Ahead with its War on Fast Fashion Amid Cost-Cutting Initiatives

Retail TouchPoints

Resale platform ThredUP has debuted a new, light-hearted marketing ploy in its ongoing battle against “fast fashion addiction,” mere days after announcing it was joining the ranks of tech companies cutting staff amid an economic slowdown. A Fast Fashion Confessional to Help Gen Z. Strong Q2 Masks Impending Slowdown.

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With SHEIN Exchange Launch, Retailer Uses Resale to Mend its Wasteful Fast Fashion Ways

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Additionally, it’s likely SHEIN was looking for a sustainability-focused facelift ahead of a planned U.S. with plans to expand it globally next year. SHEIN is launching its resale program after coming under fire for its fast-fashion practices, with criticism from circular fashion platform ThredUP at the forefront.

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Study: Resale to Hit $47B by 2025, Giving Fast Fashion a Run for its Money

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Perhaps more important is the fact that of those first-time buyers, 76% said they plan to increase their spend on secondhand in the next five years. Growing Sustainability Concerns Favor Resale Over Fast Fashion. It appears that much of that growth will come at the expense of fast fashion. said Clark.

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Five Below Taps Forever 21 CEO to Lead Company

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She led a brand refresh for the fast fashion retailer, focusing on younger consumers with a social-media-first approach to customer engagement. Co-founder Thomas Vellios will continue as Chairman of the Five Below board and work with the executive team to drive the retailers strategic priorities. For its Q3 2024, which ended Nov.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Barcelona, women stand at conveyor belts, manually sorting T-shirts, jeans and dresses from large bales of used clothing – a small step towards tackling Europe’s towering problem of discarded fashion. million tonnes of textile waste by 2030, McKinsey said in the report.