French program encourages repairing damaged clothes

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France’s Ministry of Ecology has joined up with a private French organization called Refashion to reimburse people who decide to mend rather than discard clothes and shoes. Those who participate are paid between €6 and €25 to cover the mending costs of fixing clothes that are damaged to the point of becoming unusable. Read more about France’s pay-to-repair clothes program.

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