26 hours ago · India
‘Every day, someone loses a hand or a leg’: the brutal reality of India’s textile recycling industry
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian Business is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to India. The first report grouped here was at 6 Nov 2026, 07:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘Every day, someone loses a hand or a leg’: the brutal reality of India’s textile recycling industry”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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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 north Indian…
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
‘Every day, someone loses a hand or a leg’: the brutal reality of India’s textile recycling industry
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