Pakistan’s booming secondhand clothing industry raises environmental concerns
Cătălin Roșioru
The country lacks the infrastructure to manage and dispose of its mounting rubbish, including an estimated 270,000 metric tonnes of textile waste it produces each year. KARACHI: Growing poverty levels and soaring inflation have pushed millions of Pakistanis to rely on secondhand garments, transforming the country’s used-clothing market into a billion-dollar industry. But with it comes a mounting environmental cost. Every day, truckloads of used garments from the European Union, the United
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