The clothing industry contributes significantly to greenhouse emissions and to the waste society ultimately discards. How to reduce these two burdens is not clear.

One thing which is not clear to me is how this accounting deals with remaindered garments -- like the ones you can find in Marshalls. Are they included in the "sold" category (after all, they do eventually get sold by the company that ordered their production) or the "waste" category? If these are considered "sold", how come any garments remain as "waste"? Why aren't they all remaindered, and thus eventually put in the hands of someone who will wear them?

Some fraction must be bizarre styles that hardly anyone wants to wear. But it seems implausible to me that they would be a substantial fraction of total production.