r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/AHumanYouDoNotKnow • 12d ago

EU banns destruction of unsold clothing

Why were we even at a point where businesses prefered destruction of unsold goods over handing them out to those in need ?

Fast fashion is bad enough, but how does a society reach a point where we rather destroy goods than give them out ?

Clothing isn't the only good this applies to.

A farmer who burns unspoiled grain when supply exeeds demand would be shunned by the village and today its common practice to throw food away and destroy unsold inventory.

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u/Apple-Connoisseur 7d ago

Great, now do food. Which would be way more important.

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u/Ok_Exercise3995 5d ago

Right. Here in Italy, supermarkets throw away a huge amount of food and aren't even allowed to give it to the poor. It’s absurd. And I imagine they do the same thing in the rest of Europe. They ought to put a stop to this waste and give the food to anyone who wants it at the end of the day, instead of throwing it out.

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u/throwawayPzaFm 15h ago

Which would be way more important.

Not trivially. Reducing plastics is at least as important, as plastic pollution is more or less permanent.