All Research on Second-Hand Clothing Needs to Be Transformed into Action, Policy Coherence Needed

All Research on Second-Hand Clothing Needs to Be Transformed into Action, Policy Coherence Needed
Second Life Second-hand clothes displayed at the São Paulo Market, the largest wholesale market in Angola’s capital, Luanda. Indetexx Clothing

It is not just an irony, but an outright travesty that this needs to be emphasised: the second-hand clothing sector does indeed generate jobs in a region where millions live below the International Poverty Line of $2.15 a day. A study that looked at SHC in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia explored a facet that anti-waste activists unfortunately choose to ignore.