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Learn how unsustainable fashion exploits and impacts the environment at every stage of the process. Use this knowledge to discern how linear models are harmful and how perpetuating fast fashion in consumer culture increases its environmental impact. We need to replace these models and behaviours to consume less and waste less.

1. Extraction

Cotton Farming

Intensive use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and agricultural land space

Degrades soil nutrients and regeneration and can dry out soil

2. Production

Water Usage

200 tons of water is used per ton of textile produced

20% of global wastewater comes from fabric dyeing and treatment

Polluted water infiltrates groundwater systems and disturbs ecosystems

Polluted water contributes to negative health impacts in local communities

3. Distribution

Transportation

23% of the fast fashion industry’s greenhouse gas emissions are from transportation alone

Long supply chains of shipping and trucking around the world raise GHG emissions

4. Consumption

The average person buys 60% more clothes in 2019 than they did in 2000

40% of purchased clothing is never used

5. Disposal

Textile Waste

87% of total fiber input used for clothing is either incinerated or ends up in landfills

Non-biodegradable textile waste (from synthetic fabrics) can sit in landfills for over 200 years

Learn more from the resources below

https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/old-environmental-impacts

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0039-9

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