Economic Impact of Recycling and Reusing of Used Clothing in Global Market
Keywords:
Clothing, Reuse, Recycle, Disposal, Consumer.Abstract
People around the world spending billions of dollars to buy their clothing and it will increase with the growth of population and more demanding and consuming users. The accelerated pace of clothing consumption among the consumers in the world has led to an increase in clothing disposed of in the landfill rather than being reused or recycled. But there is a sense growing among the people that disposal of clothing in the landfill will have severe environmental consequences which are fatal for the world. Also the recycle or reuse of used clothing can create a considerable amount of business and employment in the world. The purpose of this article is to point out to the fact that global market is extremely potential for this business and it can enlarge more.
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