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Fast fashion has a massive environmental impact, it is the second-biggest consumer of water and is responsible for nearly 10% of global carbon emissions.
The increased production and consumption of fashion has serious and long lasting environmental impacts. As previously noted, fast fashion contributes an estimated 10% of global CO2 emissions annually.
Fast fashion pollution creates not only long-term and potentially irreversible environmental damage, but exacerbate the effects of climate change. Fast fashion is fast in more ways than one. The rise of fast fashion is intertwined with the rise of social media and influencer culture.
However, overconsumption has led to the rise of fast fashion, a wasteful and polluting system that our environment bears the cost of, while its emissions accelerate climate change. Earth.Org takes a closer look.
The groundbreaking fast fashion documentary covers everything from the environmental costs and impacts of our current global fashion industry, the labour rights abuses in developing countries, as well as delving into how genetically modified cotton is related to cancer incidence and suicide.
Fast fashion generated more CO2 than aviation and shipping combined. The fashion industry is the second-largest industrial polluter, accounting for about 10% of global pollution, ranking higher than emissions from air travel and maritime transport combined.
The extremely detrimental impact of fast fashion waste on the environment is no news. Besides being responsible for nearly 10% of global carbon emissions, the industry is also infamously known for the amount of resources it wastes and the millions of clothes ending up in landfills every day.
Why Is Fast Fashion Bad? Globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is produced every year and that number is expected to soar up to 134 million tonnes a year by 2030. But textile waste is not the only environmental impact to come out from the fashion industry.
From Zara to Shein, here are seven of the biggest fast fashion companies to avoid in the future for their detrimental impact.
Increasingly more people have been made aware of fast fashion, which refers to a large sector of the fashion industry that relies on cheap and rapid production of low quality clothing, leading to consumers discarding outfits quickly, and its detrimental impacts on the environment.