Rewear study warns on ‘waste colonialism’

AMSTERDAM — Growing rewear markets risk entrenching waste colonialism unless Europe couples reuse strategies with binding measures to cut overproduction and tackle the export of low‑value textile waste to the Global South, according to a new study.

The Project Rewear report, from Fashion for Good and Circle Economy, analysed 8,280 post‑consumer garments in four EU countries alongside field research in Ghana’s Kantamanto Market and Pakistan’s used textiles sector.