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Recycling textile for a living (wage)
Meet Marc Vooges, Managing Director of Sympany, a textile recycling social enterprise. I met Marc at the ReBlend launch party. Shortly afterwards, I visited him at Sympany’s recycling center and offices in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Here’s what Marc had to say about textile waste, recycling and innovation. Environmental impact of textiles My focus…
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Royal recycling
Usually I cringe when journalists comment on what women wear, but this time I cheered when the news broadcast that Queen Maxima of the Netherlands chose to wear her coronation dress a second time. Of course for fashion magazines that is the topic to talk about, but in most other media, it is completely irrelevant information…
