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What is Fast Fashion? Environmental Impact and Issues

Have you ever thought about how your fashion habits have been affecting the globe? Here is the environmental, social and economic impact of fast fashion.t

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What is Fast Fashion? Environmental Impact and Issues

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  1. HOW IS FAST FASHION AFFECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

  2. Fast fashion’s the process of clothes moving from runways to consumer’s closet. And also to the dustbin at the speed of light

  3. In the last 2 decades, the amount of apparel purchased by consumers has multiplied by 5 times.

  4. Air pollution‘s caused due to the by-product of CO2 emission from transportation and the use of large machinery.

  5. The clothing that’s disposed into the junkyard is at times made from synthetic fabric which doesn’t degrade well.

  6. Child labor is common in such chains. Countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Argentina, India, Vietnam, China etc, were found using child labor.

  7. The number of litres of drinking water a person consumes in 2.5 years i.e. approximately 3,000 litres is used to manufacture 1 cotton shirt.

  8. Workers are prone to average to poor dangerous working atmosphere with long working hours and are paid less.

  9. Workers need to be paid thrice more than what they’re paid just to meet their basic needs and survival necessities.

  10. Every minute, 60 garbage trucks of clothes are burnt or land-filled which stays for as long as 2 centuries.

  11. Fabrics when washed release close to a million tonnes of microfibers into the water bodies every year.

  12. Dyes are known to be one of the largest water pollutants.

  13. The amount of greenhouse gas that’s produced to manufacture one pair of jeans is equivalent to that needed to drive a car for 80 plus miles.

  14. In the next 3 decades, the fashion industry’s expected to use up close to a quarter of the world’s carbon budget.

  15. Retailers have been using designer’s designs for bulk production without their permission. Thus, violating rules on intellectual property grounds.

  16. Some of the fast-fashion retailers are Zara, Gap, H&M and Forever 21.

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