Is it? 4-9% of unsold portion seems reasonable. Unless they actually mean 4-9% of all manufactured.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/the-destr...

Oh, it's really percentage of all produced. Weird that they worded it in a way that makes their argument weaker.

>Based on available studies, an estimated 4-9% of all textile products put on the market in Europe are destroyed before use, amounting to between 264,000 and 594,000 tonnes of textiles destroyed each year.