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Second-hand clothes traders in Toi market, Nairobi. [File, Standard]
Kenya’s second-hand cloth lobby, the Mitumba Consortium Association of Kenya (MCAK) has joined other clothing industry lobbies across Africa in calling for reforms in the new global guidelines for used textiles.
The lobbies have published an open letter to the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep), calling for greater transparency and accuracy in the agency’s ongoing research on used clothing and textile circularity.
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