Fashion? Fashion is not the only offender. Huge amounts of clothes that are bonded at the seam versus stitched(hard to adjust size) and we have all seen the bil

Fashion? Fashion is not the only offender. Huge amounts of clothes that are bonded at the seam versus stitched(hard to adjust size) and we have all seen the billion of consumer items glued/riveted/ultra sonic welded as well as food items packed in multilayer single use cartons = a universal woe that later archeologists might well call the 'trash era'. This is an existential threat!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk#:~:text=Existential%20risks%20are%20defined%20as,drastically%20inferior%20state%20of%20affairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk#:~:te.... We may laugh at it now, but there are areas of the world that have become dumping grounds for our trash even now. Used clothes given to goodwill etc have exceeded their ability to resell it all in their shops. Most of it is now bought by job lotters who fill containers and send them globally to poorer countries and Africa/Caribbean/Asia and sell them in bag auctions for cash. Hundreds of people line up to buy these and they sort and sell flea market style. Some bags are good deals others less so. While it does invigorate a local industry who buy the clothes and then make items from them - huge amounts pile up in waste clothing dunes all over the place, and even then lower order scroungers sort these piles. There are often fires and huge plumes of plastic smoke fill the air. The time has come to out law these practices = you eat what you make. This can be done with a fee at sale process. Ontario, Canada has one for electronic goods. If you buy a keyboard it has a fee attached and an approved recycler can scrap this keyboard and claim this fee if he correctly recycled it. One major one is Glencore https://www.glencore.ca/en/What-we-do/Metals-and-minerals/Copper https://www.glencore.ca/en/What-we-do/Metals-and-minerals/Co... They smelt copper ores, and recover wire/copper/steel from e-scrap. They use the heat of combustion of the printers/keyboards/etc as process heat. Smelting occurs at a high enough temperature that all organics become CO2 and H2O, and other materials, chlorine, soot are recovered by a 'bag house' - in essence a vacuum cleaner bag, and fumes are quenched in recycled water and filtered. The baghouse dust and wet filtered dust in refined for whatever values are in there. Same needs to be done with clothes - Glencore could also burn them as fuel for the refinery and filter the output. This means a fee on clothed - and any other item, refrigerators, washers etc - make it worth doing and someone will do it for the $$. Nationally this will be a few % added for a permanent solution to waste paid for at source by them that made it!!