• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    7 天前

    Sweden tried to something similar last year, they banned throwing out old clothes with the garbage, you had to hand it in to specific collection points.

    In just a few weeks the system was broken and overloaded, they didn’t have the capacity to deal with the sudden influx of material.

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      7 天前

      Germany did something similar. Since then most collection points closed, because they ha to sort through to much unusable clothing that for thrown in there.

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      7 天前

      Very big differences in these laws.

      In Sweden they put the responsibility on the consumers. EU is putting the responsibility on the companies.

      As you should.

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        7 天前

        Yes but they have a minimum payment requirement that fucks small business. So the eu will have plenty of big corporate slop and soon be cut off from real independent small businesses.