Green Tips: Fast fashion comes with a cost
Are you tired of your clothes and in need of a shopping spree? Maybe a wedding is on the horizon and a new zippy dress or suit sounds divine. Yet…
Sewing, mending and other easy hobbies helped me ditch fast fashion
For my graphic novel, “Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability,” I found a lot of compelling history about clothing. A recurring theme (particularly before the Industrial Revolution) was…
Fast fashion report cards show what’s really in your clothes
Consumers’ drive for quantity over quality is transforming the world’s textile industry, sparking an almost doubling in global fiber production over the past two decades. Underpinning the explosive growth is…
Marketplace.orgThe dirty side of the fast-fashion businessIt's time to air out some of fast fashion's dirty laundry. Recently, fast-fashion retailer Shein was in the headlines over a paid influencer….12 hours ago
Marketplace.orgThe dirty side of the fast-fashion businessIt’s time to air out some of fast fashion’s dirty laundry. Recently, fast-fashion retailer Shein was in the headlines over a paid influencer….12 hours…
Why fast fashion’s allure comes with environmental and human costs
Ali Rogin: And Iman Amrani joins me now tell us more about the accusations that SHEIN faces. Iman Amrani, Host, “Inside the SHEIN Machine: Untold”: So thank you for having…
Business GreenClosing the loop on circularity: Empowering clothing specialists to unstitch fast fashionBusinessGreen Intelligence explores how mend and repair start-up, The Seam, hopes to pick apart wasteful fast fashion trends..22 hours ago
Business GreenClosing the loop on circularity: Empowering clothing specialists to unstitch fast fashionBusinessGreen Intelligence explores how mend and repair start-up, The Seam, hopes to pick apart wasteful fast fashion trends..22…
Landfill Of Fast Fashion Clothing Now Large Enough To Be Seen From Space
A mountain of unused fast fashion clothing items in the Atacama Desert in Chile has grown so large that satellites have captured clear images of it. What do you think?…
Store window display makes statement on fast fashion
Owners of consignment store want people to think more consciously about the clothing they’re purchasing and how they’re discarding clothing. A Victoria consignment store is making a statement for Earth…
Chile’s Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground
Francisco Ángel, 24, searches through a mountain of discarded clothes in Chile’s Atacama Desert for brand names that will bring him better prices at a local street market. Each week,…
Fast fashion fix: New research aims to keep clothing out of landfills
Researchers are hoping their new study will be used to change how much clothing ends up in landfills. The study was lead by Sabine Weber, a professor of…