11 million garments are being sent to the UK's landfills on a weekly basis.
In Europe, in 2005, about 15-20% of disposed textiles was collected (the rest is landfilled or incinerated), whereof about 50% was downcycled and 50% was reused...
In the UK, around 650,000 tonnes of unwanted clothing are collected annually from different sources including brand take-back schemes.
On average, clothing in the UK lasts for 3.3 years before it is discarded or passed on.
Estimates suggest as much as 95 percent of clothes discarded in the US could be used again—re-worn, reused or recycled—depending on the state of the textile wastes.
The US exported more than 1.68 billion pounds of used clothes valued at more than $681 million.
In the US, less than 20 percent of clothing donations sent to charities are actually resold at those charities.
In the US the recycling rate for textiles in clothing and footwear is 13.6 percent.
In the US, the main source of textiles in municipal solid waste (MSW) is discarded clothing.
US MSW landfills received 11.2 million tons of textiles in 2017. This was 8 percent of all MSW landfilled.
In 2017, the last year for which the EPA has data, the US landfilled or burned 14.32 million tons of textile waste - or about 88 pounds per person.
4 percent of global waste is from the fashion industry.
The world produces 92 million tonnes of textile waste in 2015.
Nearly three-fifths of all clothing produced ends up in incinerators or landfills within a year of being made.
Fast fashions are constructed so that they typically last no more than 10 wearings.
