The fashion industry generates 10% of global carbon emissions, more than both air and sea transportation combined. The fast fashion industry has left a huge environmental impact on manufacturing and processing. Harmful dyes bring colorful clothes, but also cause serious pollution to water purification....
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 ...
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...
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...
(35%) and Ukraine (24%) (UNSCEAR, 2008). At the same time,131I was a problematic radioactive isotope due to the fast transfer to thehuman food chain(via the transfer to pasture grass and subsequently to cow milk), despite its much lower persistence (8-day half-life) (UNSCEAR, 2008)...
It aims to make the quick arrival of high-end fashion to the mass market at affordable prices. The business of the fashion industry is getting promoted to a huge level due to the fast-fashion system; however, the system fails to address sustainability. Though the business and profits are ...
Pollution created by making and dyeing clothes has pitted the fashion industry and environmentalists against each other. Now, the advent of "fast fashion"—trendy clothing affordable enough to be disposable—has strained that relationship even more. But what if we could recycle clothes like we rec...
This also means that there is no chance of redesigning the project to reduce its cost by running at-grade. There is too little political capital to do so, due to the premature commitments made nearly 15 years ago. California has been able to resile from its initial promises to Central Vall...
The oceans are also turning green due to the shift in phytoplankton population from warming waters. The insurance industry, the backbone of the global economy, is beginning to buckle: “I believe we’re marching toward an uninsurable future.” As is typical of our modern-day society, the ...
The gases you're sucking up through your nose could be slowly killing you: according to the World Health Organization, around 4.2 million people die prematurely from the effects of polluted, outdoor air every single year, while a further 3.8 million die due to dirty indoor air. Air pollution...