Can the EU fix fast fashion?

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Every year, Europeans chuck away millions of tons of clothing. The EU has a new plan to tackle the huge environmental impact of the fashion and textile industry — but can it make a difference? We asked the model and activist Nimue Smit to take a look. We're also talking about the UK's extremely controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, and a legal leap forward for Spain's single parents. This week's Isolation Inspiration: Lithuanian clothing exchange Vinted, and Belgian Netflix comedy 'Soil' ('Grond'). A few things Nimue mentioned that listeners might want to check out: 'Consumed' by Aja Barber, Depop, Vestiaire Collective, Sustainable Fashion Giftcard, Rank A Brand. 02:17 Bad Week: UK asylum policy 13:44 Good Week: Spain's single parents 19:49 Interview: Nimue Smit on fixing the fashion industry 34:02 Isolation Inspiration: Vinted and Grond 36:28 Happy Ending: Teaching teens to love natural history Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review or giving us five stars on Spotify. Producer: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak, with thanks to Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | hello@europeanspodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the continent's favourite podcast, coming to you this week from London Town and a dungeon in the south of France.
0:28.9	Sorry if it sounds a bit weird in here listeners, I have tried to pad the dungeon, but it might still sound a little bit dungeony.
0:34.4	Yeah, not up to scratch, Katie. I'm lucky that in my parents' house in London, we've got a lot of soft furnishings, so hopefully this will be nice and damp sounding for you all.
0:42.6	Damp? Yeah. Great. What are you doing in a dungeon in the south of France? Well, the official
0:48.0	version of events is that I'm down here to do some reporting from Nice about how people are planning on voting next weekend in this big old
0:54.7	presidential election of ours, Macron v Le Pen. But I've also snuck in a few days down here with
0:59.3	my family this week in the beautiful countryside about an hour away from Nice. I won't feel too
1:03.8	sorry for you then. It's not all bad. What's coming up on the show this week, Dominic?
1:08.4	Well, last week the world was warned by scientists that we may only have 30 months left to turn
1:15.2	the tide of global emissions and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
1:21.3	So every industry has a role to play in this transition if we're going to reach the goal
1:26.0	of declining global emissions in 30 months' time. But today, we're going to be looking at one industry in particular,
1:31.8	an industry that has a much greater effect on the climate than you might imagine, the fashion industry.
1:38.8	And we're going to be taking a look at a set of plans that the European Commission recently unveiled, plans to make fashion and
1:45.8	textiles more sustainable. It's a proposal full of ideas about how to tackle the damage that
1:51.9	fast fashion is doing to our planet, but will it work and is it enough? To discuss this further,
1:58.8	we will be joined by the model and activist Nimway Smit later on in the show.
2:03.5	But first, let's take a look across the continent to see who's had a good week and who's had a bad week.
2:11.7	Good week.
2:13.3	Bad week.
2:17.1	Who has had a bad week, Katie? It's been a bad week for immigration rights in our home
2:23.1	country of the UK, Dominic. Last week, the government in London unveiled an incredibly
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