Low Carbon: Cheap chic trashed by green MPs
The "Primark Effect" of cheap clothes being quickly binned is a danger to the environment, MPs warned last night.
Huge amounts of waste are rotting in landfill sites and giving off greenhouse gases, the Commons Environment Committee said. It added: "This throwaway tendency is exemplified by the so-called 'Primark Effect'."
Stores must do more to help consumers recycle clothes, the committee said in a report.
And it called for a ban on food waste going to landfill - instead it should be used for compost or to produce energy. Committee chief Michael Jack said waste is "a valuable source of raw material which must not be squandered".
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