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This is the show which looks at the numbers in the news and in life, and I'm Tim Harford.

The global clothing industry produces a lot of clothes, and that might not be surprising.

But the problem is that while some of these clothes are high-quality garments that last a lifetime,

others are cheap, disposable garments that are discarded or fall apart after a few outings.

And that's not even including the stuff that doesn't get sold.

Some of these unwanted clothes find new owners through vintage and charity shops, but many

make their way through sorting stations to arrive, bailed up like straw, in textile markets

in places such as Chile or Ghana. The better garments will be snapped up, but many will be dumped illegally in vast, often flammable piles.

All this is bad.

But here on more or less, we like to know, how bad?

Is there some way of quantifying the needless extravagance?

Campaigners against waste in fashion certainly have an eye-catching claim. We have enough clothing on the planet right now to clothe the next six generations of the human race.

This claim has been repeated many times over the past few years, but is it true?

Have enough clothes already been produced that

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