FAST FASHION FLAWS
What is Fast Fashion? What Is It Doing To The World? How Does That Affect You & Why Should You Care?
Before:
It used to take 21 months for brands to release clothes.
Now:
It takes 4 months to release clothes.
Americans spend 1.1 TRILLION dollars on shopping per year
(If you spent a dollar a second around the clock, you still wouldn't be able to spend that much money in 5 lifetimes)
Top Fast Fashion Brands:
- Fashion Nova
- Top Shop
- Zara
- H&M
- Forever 21
BEFORE (1980):
The "average American" bought 12 new articles of clothing every year
The Average American throws away 80 pounds of clothes a YEAR
Multiply that by about 350 million Americans. (Times the life span of the average american: 65 years). In case you don't want to do all that math, let me tell you that the number is INCREDIBLY high.
That is a lot of trash.
Now:
The "average American" buys 68 new articles of clothing per year (each is only worn 3 time)
Global Impact Overview
How Does Fast Fashion Contribute To Poverty?
Fast Fashion is created in sweatshops in order to provide cheap and ever changing inventory. The industry heavily relies on countries with poverty to produce cheap clothing.
How Does Fast Fashion Contribute To Landfills?
More than 60% of fabric fibers are now synthetics, derived from fossil fuels, which means that when the clothes end up in our landfills, it will not decay. More than 85% of the United State's textile waste goes to landfills or is incinerated. It will not decay in the oceans either.
How Does Fast Fashion Affect The Environment?
The fast fashion industry produces 10% of all of humanities carbon emissions and is the second-largest consumer of the world's water supply.
