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Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource? 24 May 2021Op-Ed by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu 24 May 2021|by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu COVID-19 worsened the textile waste crisis. Now, it's time for the fashion industry to address this spiraling problem, say Geoffrey Jones and COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of fabric waste getting ...

Agricultural water supplies have already been dramatically curtailed in the region, forcing local ranchers to cull cattle and farmers to fallow fields. "Tough times are coming," warns Tricia Stever-Blattler, Tulare County Farm Bureau executive director. "The drought is just beginning, and the impacts and consequences of the irrigation supplies being restricted to nearly zero will have far-reaching implications." At the same time, domestic wells are drying up at alarming rates, straining nonprofits that serve the rural San Joaquin Valley. "We have been inundated with calls," said Marliez Diaz,...