Fast fashion environmental impact

We should be as concerned about the origins of our clothing as we are about the foods we eat

Fast fashion is one of the industries causing the biggest damage to the environment due to its no-limits-barred production. A mountain of discarded...

Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

The fashion industry, which relies heavily on fossil fuels for production of polyester fabrics, accounts for 10% of global carbon dioxide emissions. More clothing is being produced–and and thrown away—than ever.

The world's first commercial-scale textile recycling mill is a milestone in tackling fashion's colossal waste problem.

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More retailers are collecting used clothing to resell, repair or recycle. But they’re also collecting and distributing more waste to countries who say the secondhand trade market is untenable.

On the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, we find out why boycotts aren't an affective tool for protest. Instead, try this.

How fashion is changed and can be changed at the white-hot center of culture.

Tucked behind sand dunes throughout Chile’s Atacama Desert, heaps of branded jackets and hiking shoes that never found a second life were some of the most striking images that made their way around the world about a year ago. The “world’s dumpster,” as some international outlets came to call the estimated 741 deserted acres of clothing junkyards, had quietly taken shape in the planet’s most arid desert. The hundreds of acres of amassed trash — countless articles of clothing, both torn and…

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As the West continues to mass produce cheap clothes, a lot of it ends up barely worn, donated or in a landfill. In Ghana, the deluge of worn-out fashions has overwhelmed the West African country's infrastructure and poses huge environmental threats to its coastlines.

Art about the overconsumption of fashion.