The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions.
I thought i should just leave this here…
While people bought 60% more garments in 2014 than in 2000, they only kept the clothes for half as long. […]
In Europe, fashion companies went from an average offering of two collections per year in 2000 to five in 2011. […]
Some brands offer even more. Zara puts out 24 collections per year, while H&M offers between 12 and 16. […]
A lot of this clothing ends up in the dump. The equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothes is burned or dumped in a landfill every second.
trash garbage landfill. […]
In total, up to 85% of textiles go into landfills each year. That’s enough to fill the Sydney harbor annually. […]
Washing clothes, meanwhile, releases 500,000 tons of microfibers into the ocean each year — the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles. […]
Many of those fibers are polyester, a plastic found in an estimated 60% of garments. Producing polyester releases two to three times more carbon emissions than cotton, and polyester does not break down in the ocean. […]
A 2017 report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated that 35% of all microplastics — very small pieces of plastic that never biodegrade — in the ocean came from the laundering of synthetic textiles like polyester.
plastic pollution ocean waste environment. […]
The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions.
That’s more emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
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