Environmentalists Call for Radical Recycling Solutions for Discarded Football Shirts

With millions of club jerseys ending up in landfills annually, experts and activists are urging the sports apparel industry to overhaul production and recycling systems to tackle the growing textile waste crisis.

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The GuardianMostly Factual13h ago

It’s time to get shirty about the short life of the football top

With millions of club shirts going to waste every season, a radical recycling rethink is needed When Joanna Czutkowna buried a Manchester United jersey, a cotton T-shirt and a wool-cotton jumper in her Lancashire farm and dug it up a year later, the video went viral. The T-shirt had disappeared, apart from the seams (sewn with polyester thread), the jumper was 80% gone, but the United shirt remained – grubby but indestructible. (Insert joke here) The big reveal was not a surprise, certainly n...

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Environmentalists Call for Radical Recycling Solutions for Discarded Football Shirts

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