However, the actual cost of these garments goes far beyond what we pay at the checkout counter. The fast fashion industry is responsible for various environmental and social issues, including pollution, waste, and worker exploitation. Despite these issues, the fast fashion industry sadly continues ...
Microplastic pollution: Fashion contributes around 35% (190,000 tonnes per year) of primary microplastic pollution in oceans. Textile waste: The fashion industry produces more than 92 million tonnes of textile waste annually. Chemical use: The textile industry uses more than 15,000 different chem...
Vocabulary: fashion 词汇:时尚 There's nothing quite like new clothes, is there? The UK certainly loves them. According to a report by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), the UK consumes five times more clothes today than it did in the 1980s. That's more than any other nation in Eu...
Earlier this year, fast fashion retailer Zara released its first womenswear collection made of recycled poly-cotton textile waste. The collection is available for sale in 11 countries, helping clothing made of blended textile ...
It also produces a lot of textile waste. Fast fashion in particular, with its low prices and poor-quality items, encourages consumers to discard an item of clothing even if it has been worn only a few times. The clothing ends up in landfills around the world, including in the so-called...
2. How do the EAC define 'fast fashion'? Fast fashion is defined as “an accelerated fashion business model” involving “increased numbers of new fashion collections every year”, “quick turnarounds” and “lower prices”. 3. What are the problems associated with using either synthetic or ...
Globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste is created by the fashion industry each year – to put that into perspective, that means that the equivalent of one truck full of clothes being dumped in a landfill or burnt every second. If the current trend continues...
Impact of overproduction and waste Fast fashion is made to fit into current trends. Couple that with the fact that it’s made as cheaply as possible; it’s often looked at as disposable. In 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that landfills received 11.3 million tons of MSW...
In the constant search for ‘newness’, wardrobes are constantly updated and changed, with clothing becoming as disposable as the packaging it arrives in. Not only does this produce an inordinate amount of textile waste, it has also resulted in water usage for textile and fashion manufacturers ...
It’s the first stage of a new life for the textiles, part of a recycling effort at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of the largest cotton recycling plants in China. Textile waste is an urgent global problem, with only 12% recycled worldwide, according to ...