How Waste Colonisation is Polluting India’s Rivers – Outlook Business

The processing units in this region receive regular shipments of discarded clothes along with cloth scraps from factories in the US, the UK, Canada, Europe, China and Japan. For context, the US generates about 17 million tonnes of textile waste; China generates around 20 million tonnes; while Italy and Germany contribute around 465,000 tonnes and 390,000 tonnes, respectively. Elsewhere, Japan generated a total of 798,000 tonnes of new clothing in 2022, of which approximately 485,000 tonsnes of such clothing was discarded without reuse, as per a survey by the Environment Ministry. While a major chunk of this textile waste gets discarded without reuse, a portion of it is shipped to India for recycling.

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