'It's the industry's dirty secret'

2023年8月21日 — 10 Statistics About Fast Fashion Waste · 1. 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is produced every year · 2. The apparel industry's global ...

2024年1月5日 — The average American now generates 82 pounds of textile waste each year. The production of leather requires large amounts of feed, land, water ...

2023年8月7日 — The fashion and clothing industry generates massive amounts of waste — and emits pollution in the process. Producing just one cotton t-shirt ...

Fast fashion quick to cause environmental havoc · Recycle or repurpose your old clothing · Choose quality over quantity—avoid cheap garments made from synthetic ...

Waste occurs at every stage of the garment ... The poor quality of fast fashion clothing ... In addition to degrading in landfills or being incinerated, fast ...

2022年9月22日 — Much of the clothing sent from abroad is of too low quality to use, meaning it goes directly into landfills or open-air dumps. · Unwanted used ...

2023年12月16日 — A massive, illegal mountain of trashed clothes in Chile is made primarily of fast-fashion items from all over the world.

2023年11月21日 — Fashion waste from fast fashion brands and imported second-hand garments has triggered a water pollution crisis in numerous African countries.

2019年9月3日 — ... clothing ends up in a landfill (about 85 percent of textile waste in the United States goes to landfills or is incinerated), it will not decay.

2024年1月18日 — The exorbitant waste in the industry is a result of how disposable clothes are considered in wealthy countries. It is symbolic, too, of how well ...