Fast Fashion’s Effect on Environment

Since the Pandemic, shopping online has increased tremendously.  With that being said, it’s not uncommon that many people try to find the cheapest “dupes” of high quality clothes.  The fashion industry itself consumes one tenth of the water used industrially to clean products and run factories.  Thinking about the total amount of water used to produce one cotton shirt that would be about 3,000 liters of water used.  Not only is the water usage a big problem but fast fashion is responsible for higher carbon emissions than both international flights and maritime shipping combined.  Within the next decade, an increase of 50% of carbon emissions is expected if we continue this trend.

A 2017 report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature had stated 35% of all micro plastics in the ocean come from synthetic clothing like polyester.  Since Fast Fashion is in high demand of products in a short period of time, the amount of waste emitted into the air is heavily weighed upon fashion, with 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon being emitted due to the fashion industry.  This is why it’s so important to stop shopping at stores such as Shein and forever 21 producing an exuberant amount of cotton and polyester, which not only puts the workers and farmers at harm when using toxic pesticides to grow the products, but many workers get injured due to the poor working conditions these fast fashion companies put their employees in.   Thrifting old garments is an excellent way of decreasing the amount of carbon emission as well as lowering the water usage for production.

resources:

https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/7/20/the-impact-of-fast-fashion-on-the-environment

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2,487 thoughts on “Fast Fashion’s Effect on Environment

  1. This is an interesting perspective and I think the logic from this example applies in more modern countries, at the very least, to the bottled water discussion our class had a couple days ago.

  2. As someone who is really into fashion, this topic was was SO interesting to me! I was shocked to find out that one cotton shirt’s production requires about 3,000 liters of water. I agree that it is important to stop shopping at stores like Shein and Forever 21, however, I feel that a lot of people would not give up these stores for their cheap and affordable prices.

  3. This isn’t something I really think about, so I’m glad you brought it to the class’ attention and provided us with such good statistics! This is definitely something to think about going forward when I shop!

  4. I had not considered how much carbon is emitted from cheap fashion. I wonder how hard it would be for a policy crackdown on the industry to occur.

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