‘Every day, someone loses a hand or a leg’: the brutal reality of India’s textile recycling industry

In Panipat, 1m tons of used clothing a year are turned into products for global brands, but dangerous machinery and few safeguards mean life-changing injuries are common For three months, Suraj Kumar’s job was to feed discarded clothes into shredding machines in Panipat, an industrial city in the no

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