Mastodawn

The massive warehouse Chinese fast-fashion companies are building in Poland is 5 times bigger than Amazon's, the equivalent of 100 soccer fields.
https://rmc.bfmtv.com/actualites/economie/shein-et-temu-contournent-la-taxe-sur-les-petits-colis-ils-sont-en-train-de-jouer-a-cache-cache_AV-202603130294.html

#FastFashion #Shein #Temu #France #EU

France is already working on a anti-Fast-Fashion law. It was proposed by Anne-Cécile Violland, deputy from Horizons political party:
https://www.vie-publique.fr/loi/293332-proposition-de-loi-fast-fashion-impact-environnemental-mode-jetable

Shein et Temu contournent la taxe sur les petits colis: "Ils sont en train de jouer à cache-cache..."

Le président de la Fédération française du prêt-à-porter féminin Yann Rivoallan a défendu les taxes douanières mises en place par la France et l'Europe sur les petits colis, malgré les stratégies de Shein et Temu pour les contourner.

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As long as the items imported are taxed, it's an improvement from a legal and financial perspective.

Environmentally still absurd, but that's on customers, not politics.

https://www.vie-publique.fr/loi/293332-proposition-de-loi-fast-fashion-impact-environnemental-mode-jetable

@proscience
Well, the good news is that France is already working on a law that will take in account environmental damage too. The law will work on educating costumers but also will label each product according to their environmental impact, and a tax will have to be paid according to it. This will make products that damage more the environment during their creation or disposal way more expensive than other products:

Later, a similar law can be made for all EU.

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Thanks for the link!

I don't know if you know but there's a whole EU framework for textiles with plenty of measures that's kicked off a few years ago, with more and more of them getting implemented over time.

One of them is a digital product passport (DPP) that'll come into force for textiles in 2027 with a transition time of 1.5 years IIRC. Part of that DPP will exactly be its environmental impact.

So yeah, such info has been in the making on the EU level for years—but as

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always, it'll only be as good as implemented.

And it'll have to survive the ongoing attacks of the industry that lobby the Commission, MEPs, politicians in national governements and parliaments, all too eager to get away with polluting and poisening the planet unhindered (as well as exploiting workers).

@proscience

No, I didn't know. Thanks for the info!!!

Well, things have changed rapidly in the last year, I think a lot of EU citizens have changed their minds in many issues after all what we have gone through in the last year. So, maybe lobby pressure has morphed into something that makes a difference between EU textiles (produced respecting way more laws) and Chinese textiles that don't respect a lot (and often are even toxic).

@proscience

I think public educational campaigns may work too.

I remember some months ago a French fashion designer (I think it was Agnes B), was commenting that she has clothes that are 30 years old and still wears them (they are fine) while fast fashion clothes like Shein's can't stand a lot of washes, they don't last.

With a good campaign people may realize they actually save money when they buy good quality.

I was brought up like her and pass it on to my family. 😄

The trouble I observe is though that many (in no way limited to teenager or adolescent females!) don't *want* quality since it's more important to them to follow fashion trends whose cycles are only a few months short.

That's a big challenge to overcome.

A minor factor but still one is that in many countries, home ec classes have been axed. As a result, fewer and fewer are aware of the skills that go into making a garment. >>>