The fast fashion model that exists today is inherently unsustainable. It manufactures insecurity for the sake of profit and produces cheap clothes that won’t last and are destined for landfills.
Collective Fashion Justice- following the weather, there used to be four fashion seasons. Today, there are 52 micro-seasons.Collective Fashion Justice. This needless mass-consumption of clothing comes at a cost. The best way to enjoy fashion sustainably is to buy less and care for your clothes, wearing them for as long as you can.
Fast facts on fast fashion......
Nine out of ten garment workers in Bangladesh cannot afford enough food for themselves and their families because they are not paid fairly........Global clothing production has doubled in the last 15 years, while on average, garments are being worn less and discarded faster.......Across the globe, we consume 400% more clothing than we did two decades ago......Planned obsolescence is common in fast fashion, meaning clothes are designed to wear out or become unfashionable faster than ever........It is common for brands to burn and destroy clothes that are not sold rather than give them away to ‘protect’ their brand........Each year in Australia alone, 501 million kilograms of unwanted clothing ends up in landfill, and 94 million kilograms is exported to other countries........On average, people only wear 50% of the clothes in their wardrobes........Globally, the equivalent of a rubbish truck full of textiles and clothing is sent to landfill every second.
Fast fashion is an environmental and ethical crisis......The destructive dumping of fast fashion.....Each year, tens of thousands of tons of unsold, unworn clothes are sent to a Chilean desert to slowly degrade, releasing methane emissions. While deserts may appear desolate and empty, they are ecosystems that — like any other — host a wide array of biodiversity when healthy. The Atacama desert where fast fashion’s waste is dumped has been referred to as a ‘biodiversity hotspot’ in a peer-reviewed paper. A similar story of destructive dumping plays out across many other parts of the globe.
To combat this crisis the fashion industry must......
Become circular, ensuring garments are recycled, biodegraded or repurposed rather than thrown out. Embrace radical degrowth, recognising the impossibility of a continually enlarging fashion industry on a finite planet. The creation of a considered and circular fashion system which prioritises creativity, culture, individuality and total ethics is both more exciting, and critical to the future of our shared Earth. Experts suggest the fashion industry must reduce its waste and use of resources by fourfold to exist within planetary boundaries — the limits to what we can take from the planet each year, before these resources cannot be replenished, resulting in degradation, pollution and ecological harm.....read on there much more https://www.collectivefashionjustice.org/mass-consumerism