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Clearing the Way for a Cleaner Future: World Cleanup Day 2025
At Piper Maddox, we believe building a cleaner energy future goes hand in hand with protecting the environment around us. Recruitment may be our business, but our responsibility extends further, to the communities we live in and the planet we all share. That’s why World Cleanup Day is so important to us. Taking place on Saturday, it’s a global movement that unites millions of volunteers, governments, and organisations across 190+ countries in a single mission: to clean up litter, restore nature, and protect our environment. It proves that small actions, when multiplied across communities, can have a global impact. World Cleanup Day 2025: Tackling Textile and Fashion Waste This year, the focus is on textile and fashion waste, one of the fastest-growing environmental challenges. According to UN-Habitat, every second a garbage truck full of clothes is dumped in a landfill or burned. The fashion industry generates 92 million tonnes of textile waste each year, overwhelming waste systems, polluting waterways, and fuelling the climate crisis. World Cleanup Day 2025 highlights the urgent need to raise awareness, change consumption habits, strengthen waste management systems, and build policies and partnerships that advance circularity and urban resilience. A global effort, and how you can be part of it Beyond clearing waste from rivers, coastlines, city streets, and green spaces, World Cleanup Day sparks vital conversations about overconsumption, fast fashion, and the systemic changes needed to build more sustainable economies. For us at Piper Maddox, it’s a reminder that sustainability is also about protecting ecosystems, reducing waste, and rethinking how industries, like fashion, can shift toward cleaner futures. Whether you join an organised cleanup, repurpose or recycle clothing, or simply make more conscious fashion choices, every action counts. Together, we can reduce the strain on ecosystems, support biodiversity, and move toward a world where sustainability is woven into every industry. Learn more about World Cleanup Day and how you can get involved here: www.worldcleanupday.org
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