What is fast fashion?
According to Oxford Dictionary, fast fashion is inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends
Everyone wants to be trendy
Is your shopping addiction actually harming the planet?
Over-consumerism is not a victimless act.
Article on fast fashion and its negative impact on the environment (above).
-water
-waste
-energy
-microplastics
Is it worth it?
From this article^
- The world produces 92 million tons of textile waste each year, only 1% of that gets recycled into new garments.
- China (20M tons) and the US (17M tons) produce the most waste.
- Clothing and textiles currently make up at least 7% of the total amount of waste in global landfill space.
- Between 80 and 100 billion new clothing garments are produced globally every year.
- 87% of the materials and fibers used to make clothing will end up in either incinerators or landfills.
- Only 20% of discarded textiles are collected.
- Out of the 17 MILLION tons of textile waste that the United States produces every year, 66% of it is thrown in landfills.
Ways to help
- Shop at small businesses
- Look for products that come from sustainable
Sources or that include a sustainable label
- Thrift Shop
- Try to upcycle your own clothes that you haven’t worn in a while
How one Minneapolis Upcycler is changing sustainable fashion. (here)
