Study: Second-hand clothes trade supports hundreds of thousands of jobs

Cecilia Keating
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Study: Second-hand clothes trade supports hundreds of thousands of jobs

Report published as EU lawmakers prepare to finalise new framework for trade of second-hand clothes

The second-hand clothing market is supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs across Europe and Africa, while boosting the British economy by hundreds of millions of pounds. That is according to a report...

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