About 12% of all clothes that get manufactured don’t get worn. They often end up collecting dust in a warehouse, chucked into a landfill site, or even — as once happened with Burberry — burnt.
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March 31, 2021
Otrium raises $120m in mission to ensure “all clothing gets worn”
12% clothes don’t get worn — Otrium says it has the answer.
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