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fuzz4lyfe | 6 years ago

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EPA estimates that the generation of clothing and footwear was 11.9 million tons in 2015 (4.5 percent of total MSW)

If 4.5% in the majority, they have too many categories.

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dredmorbius|6 years ago

There are two different denominators here.

The first is that clothing is the majority of textile waste.

The second is that textiles are 4.5% of all MSW.

Which means that clothing is >2.25% of all MSW.