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France’s lower house votes to limit ‘excesses’ of fast fashion with environmental surcharge
Measure is part of package aimed at limiting pollution associated with cheap, imported clothes
France’s lower house of parliament has backed a string of measures to make low-cost fast fashion, especially items from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers. Thursday’s vote makes France the first country in the world “legislating to limit the excesses of ultra fast fashion”, said Christophe Bechu, minister for the ecological transition. An initiative brought by leftwing and Green party deputies to include minimum penalties for producers breaking the rules as well as import quotas and stricter workplace criteria in the industry into the new law was struck down.
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