Oxfam urges charitable secondhand resale

PARIS – A new report from Oxfam France warns that while second-hand clothing can deliver major environmental and social benefits, not all ‘second-hand’ models are equal.

It calls on policymakers to make solidarity-based reuse a central pillar of France’s textile policies and to reform the country’s EPR scheme for clothing, household linen and footwear (REP TLC) to prioritise local social economy operators.