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Clothing Producers Required to Recycle Old Garments Under New California Law

Clothing Producers Required to Recycle Old Garments Under New California Law
A price tag on a sweater at a Thrift Town store in San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2008. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Kimberly Hayek
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Thinking of throwing your old clothes in the trash? In California, doing so may soon be a distant memory, after the state passed the nation’s first clothing recycling law.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 28 signed Senate Bill 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which establishes the nation’s first “extended producer responsibility” textile recycling program.

Kimberly Hayek
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.