The Economics of Waste: How Fashion Normalised Destruction — and Why Brands and Retailers Now Share the Burden

by Tim Lee
on Feb 11, 2026 12:39:08 PM

For decades, the fashion industry has quietly absorbed the cost of destroying perfectly usable products. Returned garments, unsold stock, end-of-season leftovers — all routinely sent to incineration ...

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