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EU approves ban on destruction of unsold clothing
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The issue is that some of the brands are intentionally destroying unsold clothing so 'the poors' can't end up wearing their brand and I guess diluting the brand's reputation or something.
They should try making only 100 shirts instead of 1000 where 900 end up not selling fast enough.
or not making ugly overpriced shit
There are always a few people willing to pay a crazy price for some crazy nonsense garbage. I think it’s ok to make few shirts like that, but you have to make sure you actually sell all of them. Better not manufacture more than you can sell.
Yeah, they might after this
They could just punch an eye hole in it somewhere and send it to some place that wants/needs clothes.
I'm not sure what you mean. They are (currently) explicitly making sure that the clothing never ends anywhere that wants/needs clothes - as in the goal is anti-charity.
Under the new law, I hope they can't take a hole puncher to it. If they are allowed, they'll do as much damage as they legally can.
Because you aren't likely to run into someone with a "fake" and they couldn't just ship them back to western countries to resell and undercut. How is that worse then them currently destroying them?
Oh, interesting. I wasn't aware of the reselling thing, and from the votes it seems a lot of others weren't either. I guess if it's just punched on something like the label/tag then that would be fine. Or maybe use permanent dye/bleach to blot it out.