Clothing and fast fashion have major impacts on our environment; everything from diminishing our water supplies, creation of plastic-based synthetic materials, contribution to landfill waste, and massive oil and gas usage during shipment.
Our impact on the environment is inevitable, but it does not have to be without intention— no matter where in the world you live. While we can’t stop the production of fast fashion in its entirety, consumers have power over their personal environmental impact by way of limiting their consumption, investing into quality items, and shopping secondhand
Sources referenced in episode three:
https://isaic.org/blog-1/2021/6/17/getting-scrappy-about-waste-sajfd#
https://www.aatcc.org/news2021-10a/
https://www.asg.org/what-do-you-do-with-fabric-scraps/
https://www.parkcityfashionweek.com/
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