DW News – 2024

Every year, nearly 100 billion items of clothing are produced – and 65% of them end up in a landfill within 12 months. New technologies in textile recycling may be able to curb that waste – while producing a host of sustainable materials.

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change.

Credits:

• Report: Dave Braneck
• Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
• Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge
• Fact Check: Alexander Paquet
• Thumbnail: Ém Chabridon