Most fast fashion contains fossil fuels Plastic is made from oil and gas. Polyester is a thread made from plastic, woven into fabric. It's thought over half of the clothes produced today use synthetic materials like polyester. These materials often do not break down or can't be recycled, which creates a massive plastic waste problem. One obvious reason is fast fashion. In an era of fashion bloggers and getting Insta-famous, being seen in the same outfit has been enough to warrant a "tsk-tsk" from the fashion police. Just over the last five years, the top fast fashion retailers grew 9.7 per cent per year, topping the 6.8 per cent of growth of traditional apparel companies.
Nimm dir eine Auszeit von Fast Fashion Greenpeace Deutschland Option Deutschland
— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) April 15, 2022 The reality is, that only a small amount ( about 10 to 30 percent) is actually resold in the country where the clothes were collected. Some are downcycled into lower grade products like rags, and more than half of them are exported for "reuse", mostly to East and West Africa and Eastern Europe. 2025 The rise in the production and consumption of fast fashion Fast, cheap fashion has changed the way we dress; it has also changed the way we think about clothes and what we do with them. Detox My Fashion - Greenpeace International Detox My Fashion Who's on the path to toxic-free fashion? Global fast fashion brands are churning out more clothes than the planet can handle. Today's trends are tomorrow's trash, with our clothes made cheaply and disposed of quickly. Fast fashion will never be green." Ends. Notes [1] Self regulation: a fashion fairytale, Greenpeace has proved that Detoxing fashion supply chains is a game changer; but without regulation, fashion as usual will continue its destructive impacts on the climate - full report by Greenpeace Germany available here.
What are microfibers and why are our clothes polluting the oceans? Greenpeace International
A new Greenpeace report has exposed the biggest false green claims made by major global fashion labels. Here's what it found. Sustainable fashion claims by big brands - can they be trusted? Sustainability sells. And fashion labels make incredible claims to appeal to a new kind of consumer. 3rd April 2023 Environmental justice Blog The global fashion industry is long overdue a detox. Each year, billions of tonnes of practically single-use, oil-based polyester clothing waste is exported, and landfilled or burned in poor countries. Worst of all, this clothing "waste" was made by skilled human beings, working in awful conditions. Plastic Blog The fashion industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and fast fashion is increasingly being viewed in the same basket as single-use plastic. The similarities between plastic and fast fashion aren't immediately obvious, but when you dig a bit deeper they are striking. 1. Fashion is the world's second-largest polluter after the oil industry Production of fabric is a huge carbon emitter, releasing the equivalent of 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere - more than international flights and shipping combined. (I know right?!) 2. People buy 80 billion garments around the world every year
Chemicals In Fast Fashion Revealed in Greenpeace's 'Toxic Threads The Big Fashion StitchUp
23rd November 2020 Climate change Blog This is going to hurt, but it needs to be said: fashion is a disaster in terms of its environmental impacts. And as a nation, our fast fashion addiction is getting worse - thanks to surges in online shopping due to Covid-19. The research, Timeout for fast fashion, published today by Greenpeace Germany, shows how the fast fashion business is rapidly expanding: Clothing production doubled from 2000 to 2014, with sales rising from US$ 1 trillion in 2002 to 1.8 trillion by 2015, and a forecast of 2.1 trillion by 2025.
2nd July 2020 General Blog Fast fashion is bad for the environment. From growing and processing cotton, which uses a lot of water, overuse of synthetic fabrics which don't biodegrade, to manufacturing and transport, fashion is shockingly high-polluting. "Greenpeace Germany's findings show that the use of hazardous chemicals underpins SHEIN's ultra fast fashion business model, which is the opposite of being future-proof," warned Viola.
Want a fairer fashion industry? This is what you can do Greenpeace International
They don't even want to reveal how many clothes they actually produce each year. 100 billion pieces a year is an estimate from a decade ago, before the explosion in ultra-cheap, disposable fashion from companies like Boohoo and Shein. Photo: Sam Fong / Greenpeace Get tomorrow's headlines first thing As the fashion industry continues to grow, the strain it puts on the environment intensifies, with even English fashion designers like Phoebe English describing it as a "monstrous disposable industry".
