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• 4/28/20- SMART Responds to Kenya's Used Clothing & Shoe Ban

• 4/20/20- SMART Promotes Sharing of Textile Education from a Digital Distance 

• 4/8/20- SMART releases statement on Used Clothing Ban

• 3/11/20- Celebrate Textile Recycling This Global Recycling Day

• 12/5/19- EAC Retains Sale of Second-Hand Clothes

• 11/11/19- Before there was recycling, there was the rag trade

• 10/10/19 - Elon launches textile recycling program

• 10/2/19- Why Your Used Shirts Are Destined for the Dump and Not the Recycling Center 

• 6/20/19 - Low-cost recycling process gives new life to old jeans

• 4/22/19 - Save Our Plants & Animals by Recycling Textiles 
  Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles (SMART) Association encourages Earth-friendly textile use this Earth Day 

• 3/13/19 - Global Recycling Day: A Time to Celebrate Innovation in Textile Recycling

• 2/15/19 - Ensure Tidying Up Like Marie Kondo Stays Earth-Friendly: Recycle, Don’t Throw Away Clutter

• 12/20/18 - SMART Encourages Consumers to Shop Second-Hand This Holiday Season

• 11/13/18 - Expose the Secret Double Life of Donated Textiles this America Recycles Day

• 10/24/18 - Fibmatics is ahead of the curve on nonwovens

• 9/26/18 - Fighting Textile Waste

• 7/23/18 - People are quickly cycling through cheap, on-trend clothing. It's fueling a push for more sustainable apparel

• 5/29/18 - Here's where your donated clothing really ends up

• 4/11/18 - Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association Calls for Recycling Renaissance

• 3/29/18 - Update on East African Community Ban on Importation of Used Clothing

• 3/18/18 — Spread the Truth About Textile Recycling on Global Recycling Day

• 12/12/17 — Send Your Unwanted Stuffed Animals on a Journey this Holiday Season

• 11/2/17 — Celebrate America Recycles Day with "SMART"er Recycling

• 10/29/17 — Charities, resellers feeling the pinch of stiffer tariffs on cheap second-hand clothing flooding East Africa

• 9/21/17 — Greenpeace does acknowledge that “closing the loop”—completely and perpetually recycling textiles—is important, and research has made some promising strides.
• 9/5/17 — Lobbyist says US likely to punish East Africa over mitumba ban
• 8/18/17 — Reuse Solutions: Partnering with Steven Bethell
• 8/17/17 — AGOA Forum Ends Without Greater Clarity About the Scheme’s Future
• 8/15/17 — US textile recyclers say export ban will reduce jobs
• 7/17/17 — SMART Testifies on Economic Impact of Pending Secondhand Clothing Ban in East Africa Community
• 4/5/17 — Save the Planet, A Single Sock at a Time

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