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Radio 5 Live,10 May 2019,23 mins

How can we make fashion sustainable?

Cool Planet

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The fashion industry is hugely polluting, contributing around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions - and research shows three in five garments end in landfill or incinerators within a year. So what can top fashion bosses do to reduce their brand's environmental harm? 5 Live's Emma Barnett spoke to Giorgina Waltier, H&M UK's sustainability manager to find out. H&M is the second-largest garment company in the world, producing approximately 3 billion items per year to sell across its 4,800 stores.

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