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How Can Fashion Rethink the End-of-Life of Products?

Lenzing’s VP of global textiles business, Florian Heubrandner, and the Future Fabrics Expo founder, Nina Marenzi, share insights into the moral and financial imperatives of addressing fashion’s waste problem.
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“The single biggest number that says it all is that less than 1 percent of our clothing is actually being recycled. It says a lot about how linear this industry is,” said global fibre manufacturer Lenzing’s VP of global textiles business, Florian Heubrandner, in his opening remarks during last week’s

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