Fast fashion and cigarette butts ‘key targets’ of waste plan

Environment Minister Richard Bruton has said he intends to focus on fast fashion, cigarette butts, and plastic in an effort to tackle Ireland’s poor record on waste management

Fast fashion, cigarette butts, and recycling are firmly in the Government’s sights under a “radical” new waste strategy.

So-called fast fashion — clothes commonly produced in the developing world enabling its sale at cut-cost prices — has seen the amount of clothes sold across the world quadruple over the past two decades.