“While consumers and businesses have options to donate, repurpose, and repair used textiles in the U.S., the majority are discarded into municipal waste streams,” the Government Accountability Office says in a new report, which highlights issues about textile waste and textile recycling in the U.S. Against that background and in light of congressional concerns about “the rise of fast fashion and the corresponding increase in waste in the U.S., the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) asserts that it was asked to review issues related to textile waste and recycling.
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