Swedish Store to Stop Burning Unsold Clothes

Spring's here, Ã…hlens says in ads, meanwhile promising it won't burn anymore perfectly usable clothes. Popular Swedish department store Ã…hlens announced it would stop the common practice of gathering unsold clothes that are at the end of the sales chain into containers and shipping them to be burned, reported Dagens Nyheter last week. Instead, Ã…hlens said it would work with non-profits Stadmissionen and Myrorna to put the clothes to better use. Of course, this begs the question of how a clothing shop could have ...