This is absolutely sickening, for years I have said clothes are garbage quality and oversupplied to the public. It is way past the time for world leaders to put laws in place to stop companies churning out all of this trash.
But it’s not just the garment industry, it is all your consumer products. Planned obsolescence has been a business model for about 40 years at least. This has to stop, and why should these poorer nations be used as dumping grounds. That is abuse of these countries and their people, yet no one holds manufacturers to accountability. It’s all about money, and not human lives.
Think about the empty public announcements retailers and supermarket giants spout about the “carbon footprint”, yet they are causing the problem with their packaging and putting the guilt trip on the customers. That doesn’t cut it with me! I refuse to be accused of causing the landfill problems that retailers and supermarket owners are actually responsible for, not the consumer. We consumers don’t get a say in what manufacturers package their goods in nor the quality of any goods produced. We have also much less choice in what we buy also. The days of quality are long gone, but that is the fault of the company owners, not the consumers.
Let’s not forget the so called recycling, much of which one is unable to be actually recycled in the first place. The rubbish ends up in landfill or sent overseas to some other countries and then they are stuck with the problem. If a country generates rubbish, it should not be sent to someone else to deal with it.
That is just ignoring the problem, and no solution. Make the manufacturers take ownership of this, fling it back in their faces. Make laws to hold them accountable, make them stop over producing goods.
Bring back quality manufacturing, and repair goods like electronics, washing machines etc. This fiasco can’t go on. Sooner or later this has to be dealt with.
