Water pollution: The fashion industry is responsible for around 20% of industrial water pollution from textile treatment and dyeing. Despite these setbacks, fast fashion retailers are adopting more sustainable practices. Zara’s Join Life label identifies garments made from sustainable materials, such as...
and in recent years, distribution channels have been sinking. Local fast fashion brands' rapid replication mode has occupied the market, and fast fashion consumption has become the mainstream fashion consumption mode in China. However, in the western world...
And factories like this one are barely making a dent in a country whose clothing industry is dominated by “fast fashion” — cheap clothes made from unrecyclable synthetics, not cotton. Produced from petrochemicals that contribute to climate change, air and water po...
Fast fashion increases consumer spending and profits. It satisfies the consumer's need to participate in a fashion trend. However, critics say the industry contributes to climate change, pesticide pollution, and waste. The debate around fast fashion and its alternatives will continue as long as con...
Fast fashion spurs pollution快时尚品牌污染非洲水质 Global fast fashion brands are helping drive pollution that has dyed African rivers blue or turned their waters as alkaline as bleach, according to a report published on Tuesday. Water Witness International's (WWI) report featured the polluted rivers...
Global fast fashion brands are helping drive pollution that has dyed African rivers blue or turned their waters as alkaline as bleach, according to a report published on Tuesday. Water Witness International's (WWI) report featured the polluted rivers in Lesotho in southern Africa and Tanzania to ...
And factories like this one are barely making a dent in a country whose clothing industry is dominated by “fast fashion” — cheap clothes made from unrecyclable synthetics, not cotton. Produced from petrochemicals that contribute to climate change, air and water pollution, synthet...
s total carbon emissions. Producing items like jeans requires several thousand gallons of water, making it awasteful industryas well. And, since this clothing is “disposable,” most fast fashion items end up in a landfill which contributes to pollution. On average, each American throws away ...
In this Review, we identify the environmental impacts at critical points in the textile and fashion value chain, from production to consumption, focusing on water use, chemical pollution, CO2 emissions and textile waste. Impacts from the fashion industry include over 92 million tonnes of waste ...
And factories like this one are barely making a dent in a country whose clothing industry is dominated by “fast fashion” — cheap clothes made from unrecyclable synthetics, not cotton. Produced from petrochemicals that contribute to climate change, air and water pollution, ...