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...accounts for around one-quarter of the carbon footprint of clothing. Washing less frequently, using larger loads, tumble drying less and following the care label all make a difference to how long a t-shirt will last and could cut the carbon footprint by 7%. Half of the 120 million t-shirts that are no longer wanted in the UK each year go on to be reused. The other 50% go...

...accounts for perhaps a quarter of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and between 10% and 14% directly from agriculture. But, they reason, since soils hold three times as much organic carbon as exists in carbon dioxide form in the atmosphere, better management of the terrestrial planet could help reduce emissions too. So, the trick is: don’t degrade healthy...