Every year, Kenya imports more than 100,000 tonnes of second-hand clothes or mitumba. Some of the good quality clothes get sold and reused, but an estimated 35,000 tonnes are thrown away and end up clogging rivers or in overflowing landfill sites like Dandora, Africa's biggest, in eastern Nairobi.
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The Italian town of Prato in Tuscany has been recycling textiles for more than a century. There are around 7,000 textile and fashion companies in the town which recycled more than 140,000 tonnes of textiles alone in 2018 – 15 percent of the world's total.
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🇦🇹 🌱 #Vienna wants to keep its "World's Greenest City" title so everything is either recycled or incinerated within the city limits. Nothing gets exported for landfill, so it is extending its district heating and cooling system in order to fulfil its plan to become a climate model city.
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Vienna is often seen as a poster child for innovative waste management. Since the 1990s Austrians have dramatically cut the amount of waste they send to landfill sites – even passing laws to restrict their use.
Recycling is encouraged but the city also incinerates large quantities of household ...
