Ultra-fast-fashion volume makes the average garment cost more to sort than it is worth
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Ultra-fast-fashion floods donation banks with cheap blended-fibre garments: a larger share is unsellable and hard to recycle, while item-by-item sorting cost rises. The same tonne costs more to process and yields less revenue, collapsing sorting margins independently of export de
#00051Eco-modulate the EPR fee and levy ultra-fast-fashion to cut the low-value inflow at source
Scale the EPR fee by recyclability (bonus for durable mono-fibre garments, malus for disposable blends) and add a per-item levy on ultra-fast-fashion volume. This funds reject processing and pushes producers to design for sortability — shrinking the unsellable fraction at source.
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