Can Fashion’s Multi-Trillion-Tonne Trash Problem Be Controlled?

Every year, consumers around the world discard millions of tonnes of worn T-shirts, jeans and dresses — and the volumes are only growing.

Much of this — nearly

in the case of the European Union — goes directly in the trash, mixing with other forms of waste and often winding up in landfills and incinerators. The rest floods through donation bins and textile collection points into a thriving, but controversial export-oriented…