French customers will be able to claim between €7 to €25 for repairing shoes and clothes from a €154m fund in an effort to encourage people to stop throwing away and buying new.

Announced by the secretary of state for ecology Berangere Couillard (pictured), the scheme asks repairers to join eco-organisation Refashion, which calls itself the textile, household linen and footwear Industry's eco-organisation.

The scheme has the objectives of forcing brands to have more traceability and to financially support organisations specialising in reusing and recycling clothing, accelerating the transformation and funding the transition towards a circular economy.

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