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The European Union warned consumers to stop using their clothes like throwaway items and said on Wednesday that it plans to counter the polluting use of mass-market fast fashion.  New rules proposed by the EU’s executive arm call for a mandatory minimum use of recycled fibres by 2030 and would ban the destruction of many unsold products.  The European Commission rules also seek to contain the release of microplastics and improve global labour conditions in the garment industry.  “We want sustainable products to become the norm,” commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said.  “The clothes we wear should last longer than three washes.”