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Visibility Report 2025

>110 million garments sorted. 44 countries. What our numbers say– and what they don't.

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Insights: Realities We Work In

Every year, Europe discards more clothing than it buys second-hand. At Looper, we confront that paradox daily—working to keep textiles in use for as long as possible, balancing the trade-offs of local reuse, global resale, recycling gaps, and the need for transparency.

Our Realities

A worker in a warehouse uses a machine to fill a large white bag with material. Blue metal shelving units filled with bags of materials are in the background.

A man wearing a white and green striped shirt and a baseball cap stands next to stacked plastic-wrapped bundles in a storage room.

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Photographed in Douala, Cameroon

5 Questions With Sukam K., A 25 Years Trader At Mbopi Market, Douala, Cameroon

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