The Irish Times reported recently that “Irish people consume more than twice the EU average of textiles per person per year – more than 50kg – most of which ends up incinerated, exported or dumped in landfill.”
Can this really be true? What exactly are we buying? Perhaps it’s the copious amounts of cardigans, jumpers, hats and scarves that we must wear in the summer to keep warm as this “global warming” hits us?
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