Takeaways from AP's report on how China's textile recycling efforts take a back seat to fast fashion
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A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. The recycling factory that repurposes discarded cotton clothes is trying to deal with the urgent waste problem. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Kowen Tang, sales director of the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants, stands near a mound of discarded textiles in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Thirty-year-old designer Da Bao, who founded Times Remake, a Shanghai-based brand that takes secondhand clothes and refashions them into new garments, works in the work room in Shanghai, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Customers visit a store for Times Remake, a Shanghai-based brand that takes secondhand clothes and refashions them into new garments in Shanghai on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Workers labor at a workshop for Times Remake, a Shanghai-based brand that takes secondhand clothes and refashions them into new garments in Shanghai on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Founder Da Bao speaks to a worker at a workshop for Times Remake, a Shanghai-based brand that takes secondhand clothes and refashions them into new garments in Shanghai on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker walks around in a store for Times Remake, a Shanghai-based brand that takes secondhand clothes and refashions them into new garments in Shanghai on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Zhang Na, whose fashion label, Reclothing Bank, sells clothes, bags and other accessories made from materials such as plastic bottles, fishing nets and flour sacks, look at some of the products during an interview at her store in Shanghai on March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Zhang Na, whose fashion label, Reclothing Bank, sells clothes, bags and other accessories made from materials such as plastic bottles, fishing nets and flour sacks, speaks during an interview at her store in Shanghai on March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Shoppers walk by an apparel store in Shanghai on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A shopper walks past a window display for an apparel store in Shanghai on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. The recycling factory that repurposes discarded cotton clothes is trying to deal with the urgent waste problem. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A woman looks at her phone on a selfie stick on the bund, a historic riverside district of Shanghai known for its Western architecture on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. The recycling factory that repurposes discarded cotton clothes is trying to deal with the urgent waste problem. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A pile of discarded textiles waits to be fed to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker labors at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker performs maintenance work on a machinery at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A worker sweeps loose cotton near a production line at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Plastic wrapped cotton meant for overseas markets are loaded for transportation from the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China's largest cotton recycling plants in Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on March 20, 2024. The recycling factory that repurposes discarded cotton clothes is trying to deal with the urgent waste problem. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)