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Voluntary used-clothing collection collapses when the resale market that secretly funds it fails

#00046

Clothing banks look free but are secretly funded by selling the reusable fraction, mostly exported. When export demand collapsed and ultra-fast-fashion flooded banks with unsellable items, each container flipped to a loss — causing operators to quietly withdraw, ending the servic

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#00047 The export market for sorted used clothing — which funds Northern collection — is closing
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#00048 Ultra-fast-fashion volume makes the average garment cost more to sort than it is worth
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#00051 Eco-modulate the EPR fee and levy ultra-fast-fashion to cut the low-value inflow at source
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#00049 Fund collection through cost-indexed EPR support, decoupled from the resale price
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#00042 Mont des Avaloirs (CCMA), Mayenne, FranceFailed
#00043 FranceOngoing
#00044 Hautes-Pyrénées (Vic-en-Bigorre), FrancePartial
#00050 Pay collectors via a municipal service contract instead of expecting resale to fund it
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#00045 Pays Fléchois (Sarthe), FrancePartial
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