Stitch in time: France to help pay for clothes to be mended to cut waste
by Kim Willsher in Paris from on (#6CXG1)
People will be able to claim back 6-25 of cost of repairing clothes and shoes in latest environmental measure
A broken heel, a rip in trousers, buttons missing from a shirt? Don't throw them away if you live in France, where the government will pay a repair bonus" to have them mended in a new scheme aimed at cutting waste.
An estimated 700,000 tonnes of clothing is thrown away in France every year, two-thirds ending up in landfill.
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