The linked article is an inferior but true copy of https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en , an EU press release with the same headline and, as far as I can tell, true.
Fast Fashion has always been a problem and I hope this will combat that.
here’s hoping governments will stop fast fashion at the source too!
clothing companies need to be forced to fairly pay their workers, have decent working hours & conditions for them, and planned obsolescence for clothing (via flimsy thin fabrics etc) needs to be regulated out of existence. 🤞
Last September I needed a new pair of jeans. I was in a mall and saw the Levi’s store. I remembered how long my Levi’s would last in the past and figured I should put the extra money for a good pair that will last. Prices where nowhere to be seen, I tought mabe 60-80$ since I knew they where expensive. Got to the cashier and total was 130$ for a single pair of jeans!
Worst is I barely wore them and they are already full of holes! WTF !
this makes me so sad, levis are my go to. comfy and well made…or they used to :(
My Levi’s split right down my leg after like 2 years of wearing them mostly just in the winter.
Earlier this year, doing a closet cleanup, I finally retired a pair of 501’s that I bought in the Late 80’s. They were falling apart at the pocket seams. They of course had a bunch of rips and abrasions, but they were just cool.
Last year I bought a pair of 505’s. They are starting to fall apart. They are pre-faded, which means chemically or mechanically stressed. The 501’s were old school shrink to fit, dark indigo. You faded them by wearing them and washing them 100’s of times.
The new 505’s are made of clearly much inferior denim.
They were also cheaper, an impulse buy for a teenager.
hopefully you weote to levi and complained? the sales/complaints ratio need levelling.
No I will simply never buy anything from them ever again.
So they are going to be shipped abroad to get destroyed?
It’ll get more expensive so were just have to keep removing the incentive structures to destroy
Landfills?
I had a talk about my mayor about investing on incineration as both an energy source and a trash management. So they’d throw those clothes to be burned onto electricity next day
Nah, just pay a set of middlemen to handle them until they all mysteriously vanish.
We need to stop these manufacturers from offering a clothing line to every single pop culture phenom because of “business”.
Um, but then how line go up?
LINE MUST GO UP!
this is almost suggesting “line go up at any cost” are bad? no, its the consumers that are wrong. money good.
LINE MUST GO UP!
i donate usable clothing and cut up the rest as cleaning rags or strips for rugmaking. reduse, reuse, THEN recycle.
Next step: ban non-degradable synthetic textiles.
What will they do then? Are they setting up sufficient recycling capability?
From 19 July 2026, luxury and other big brands will be required to either reuse, recycle, resell (at a discount) or donate their leftover stock.
And
This rule aims at curbing waste from textiles, as well as reducing the large amount of waste the fashion industry generates each year.
If they choose recycle, they would need to do it themselves. But most likely, they will donate.
No matter what, someone is getting something at a lesser price than retail.
Or, they produce less. Which is very, very good.
The smartest move would be an aggressive clearance strategy so they don’t have to move the unsold product a second time
Yes produce less, raise prices because there is “less supply”
Honestly I’d gladly pay more if the textile quality was better. You can’t fucking get good textiles anymore, and the whole art of knowing and understanding textiles is mostly lost on the average person. That includes me!
We’re all buying the cloth equivalent of those super cheap flimsy rubbish bin liners that tear down the seams as you try to insert them in the bin, but so many don’t even know better that we just accept it.
Agreed. Good textiles, I don’t believe they exist anymore. Like they just burned the factory down or something. When I was starting out in the trades, I’d buy all my pants from thrift stores. Grease, oil, general dirt, etc, not only did the old denim last longer than anything i bought new, it washed way better. My stained clothes would actually be like 80-90% stain free out of the wash. The new stuff after a day of work became permanent work pants they just never washed out.
Come to think of it, it is probably all the damn synthetic fiber the add now that binds tightly to the petroleum molecules. Unlike the fully natural stuff in the past that can actually release the stain.
If only the author included some sort of way to learn more, like an article or something.
Don’t be silly. Articles aren’t to be read! Just discussions of headlines
They will export it.
Isn’t this a general problem? What will be so special about clothing produced on July 16th?
That’s just when the law goes into effect, it’s not about when the clothes are produced.
That screenshot gives me a vibe of “this is just like the mall, gems surrounded by trash.”
