Corona crisis: Popular fashion retailers are apparently burning truck loads of new winter goods

In the corona lockdown, fashion stores are closed - the goods are starting to pile up in the warehouses.

Fashion retailers now on a controversial measure.

Munich - Apparently, fashion brands like C&A are burning winter goods on a large scale that have not been sold.

This is what the

courier reports

.

In a quote from the trade associations for textiles, shoes and leather goods, there is talk of a “huge avalanche of half a billion unsold fashion items in stationary retail”.

According to Wirtschaftskurier, among others, the textile retailer C&A sends “a truckload of goods every day to the shops in the direction of waste incineration”.

A spokeswoman declined to comment.

C&A in the Corona crisis: Burning goods is actually prohibited by law

Due to the lockdown *, textile stores are also currently closed so that stocks cannot be sold off, but are growing steadily.

In addition to the new seasonal goods, the old collections are now clogging the warehouse, which would normally have been brought back to the shop floor as sale goods.

Second-hand shops are also closed.

And other ways of handing over slow-moving goods - such as donation transports - are restricted due to the pandemic - and also only make up a small proportion.

Because the shops have to pay sales tax on donated goods.

Actually it is forbidden by law to burn goods on a large scale.

The producers must therefore exercise their "duty of care" with regard to their responsibility to the environment *.

But a clause in the law greatly weakens the manufacturer's duty to protect the environment:

"If the original purpose can no longer be maintained and if another purpose is not possible with reasonable means, the product may be disposed of as waste."

Other brands had also gotten into the media in the past because they simply burn their leftover stocks.

For example, a report on a Danish television station showed that H&M disposed of tons of new goods in this way.

At first the chain had denied the allegations, but then admitted.

This had already led to bitter criticism before Corona.

The clothing should be donated rather than destroyed, so the allegation.

The corona crisis hit H&M hard.

The company caused a stir when they wanted to fire especially mothers.