Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Within a year, the sorting centre run by garment re-use and recycling charity Moda Re plans to double the volume it handles to 40,000 metric tonnes annually. "This is just the beginning," said Albert Alberich, director of Moda Re, which is a part of Spanish charity Caritas and runs Spain's biggest second-hand clothing chain. "Increasingly we are going to turn used clothes into raw material from Europe for fashion companies."