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⚡🇪🇺 ICYMI - EU bans the destruction of unsold clothing, accessories and footwear for large companies from 19 July 2026 with medium-sized companies expected to follow in 2030, as part of the "Green Deal" to make companies "more sustainable."
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FLASH · 1d
🗞 https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en
Vayina · 1d
Aaah much better. Now we can waste shitloads of fuel by shipping it all offshore to pay some country in the third world to put it in a landfill. So green! So sustainable! Lefties are fucken retarded.
Kayne · 1d
So they're going to ban recycling? Or are they like actually just destroying the clothing like burning them or something?
BitcoinconManolito · 1d
Not a single day without EU banning something or someone. These people are sick sociopaths.
B R · 1d
Somebody call Goodwill ..
Ernst Jünger · 1d
By then people won't be able to afford clothes bc of the green deal.
Lunapilot · 1d
I once worked in a warehouse which had a consignment of shoes that for some reason couldn't be sold on, so we were told we had to make them unsellable. Company said the new shoes couldn't be given away, but they didn't care what happened to ruined ones. Needless to say, I came home with a couple o...
The Bitcoin Act · 1d
Companies must also disclose information on any discarded unsold goods (using a standardized format), with disclosure rules already in effect for large firms and expanding in 2030!