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As with any sort of big change like this, don't be too hard on yourself! Forgot to add that to the video. Being able to be picky about these sort of things is a HUGE privilege, I know, and it's super hard.

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Gone are the days were most of our clothes if not all were made of natural fabrics. Even though natural fabrics may have chemicals added to them at some point through the process of making clothes, they are way better than synthetic fabrics.
Paying an expensive cloth with high quality of production is better than buying a cheap cloth that becomes waste after a short period of time. In stead of throwing away our clothes, we could donate them to undeveloped or developing  countries.

We could also do cloth swaps by changing our used clothes into new styles. Some stores such as H&M allow customers to return used clothes for recycling since 2013. Many people should engage in these types of programs to lower the waste size of clothes.

If we buy clothes made of natural fabrics more, companies will look into producing clothes with natural fabrics thereby reducing fast fashion.

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PROBLEMS WITH FAST FASHION                                  Fast fashion is a problem and what makes it a bigger problem is the materials being used. Did you know your material choice could either harm or protect your health? The next time you go shopping, check the labels. You will most likely  notice one or more of the top 6 toxic fabric according to bodyecology.com. These toxic fabrics are polyester, acrylic, rayon, acetate and triacetate, nylon and anything static resistance, stain resistance, permanent press, wrinkle-free, stain proof or moth repellant. I am assuming w are more familiar with polyester an d nylon which are ranked number one and number five respectively. "Polyester is the worst fabric you can buy. It is made from synthetic polymers that are made from esters of dihydric alcohol and terpthalic acid". "Nylon is made from prtroleum and is often give a permanent chemical finish that can be harmful".

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PROBLEMS WITH FAST FASHION                                  Fast fashion is a problem and what makes it a bigger problem is the materials being used. Did you know your material choice could either harm or protect your health? The next time you go shopping, check the labels. You will most likely  notice one or more of the top 6 toxic fabric according to bodyecology.com. These toxic fabrics are polyester, acrylic, rayon, acetate and triacetate, nylon and anything static resistance, stain resistance, permanent press, wrinkle-free, stain proof or moth repellant. I am assuming w are more familiar with polyester an d nylon which are ranked number one and number five respectively. "Polyester is the worst fabric you can buy. It is made from synthetic polymers that are made from esters of dihydric alcohol and terpthalic acid". "Nylon is made from prtroleum and is often give a permanent chemical finish that can be harmful".

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1.W. (n.d.). Impact Of Textiles And Clothing Industry On Environment: Approach Towards Eco-Friendly Textiles. Retrieved May 15, 2017, from http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/1709/impact-of-textiles-and-clothing-industry-on-environment?page=2
2. Szokan, N. (2016, June 30). The fashion industry tries to take responsibility for its pollution. Retrieved May 15, 2017, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-fashion-industry-tries-to-take-responsibility-for-its-pollution/2016/06/30/11706fa6-3e15-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html?utm_term=.be40008838b3
3. M. (2014, April 23). Where the U.S. Gets Its Clothing, One Year After the Bangladesh Factory Collapse. Retrieved May 15, 2017, from https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/where-the-u-s-gets-its-clothing-one-year-after-the-bangladesh-factory-collapse/
4. Fast Fashion Is the Second Dirtiest Industry in the World, Next to Big Oil. (2017, April 17). Retrieved May 15, 2017, from http://www.ecowatch.com/fast-fashion-is-the-second-dirtiest-industry-in-the-world-next-to-big--1882083445.html
5. Who Pays The Price For Your Clothing? The Cons Of Fast Fashion. (2016, April 12). Retrieved May 15, 2017, from https://www.theodysseyonline.com/pays-price-your-clothing-cons-fast-fasion
6.External costs. (2017, February 10). Retrieved May 15, 2017, from https://econation.co.nz/external-costs/
7. Parry, S. (2017, March 31). The true cost of your cheap clothes: slave wages for Bangladesh factory workers. Retrieved May 15, 2017, from http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1970431/true-cost-your-cheap-clothes-slave-wages-bangladesh-factory
8. The Top 6 fabrics You Should Avoid Wearing And Why
https://bodyecology.com/articles/top_6_fabrics_you_should_avoid_wearing.php

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Many of the textile factories are located in other countries where the fashion industry can pay workers low wages without consequences. For example a survey taken in Bangladesh, workers for the company Marks and Spencer get pay an average of 8,000 taka although they need 15,000 taka a month to sustain themselves and their families.

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As you can see many of the countries where the U.S imports their apparel are undeveloped or developing countries that need the jobs. This allows them to offer low compensation for the work being done in textile factories. Since the industry in helping the economy many governments do not set better regulations for the industry to follow.

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The fashion Industry is the second largest contributor of pollution in the world. Many actions taken by the industry hurts our environment.

One of these actions is the farming of cotton to produce clothing. Since cotton is a very vital thing for the industry, farmers must take measures in order to protect the plant. They use pesticides in order to protect the plant, but the bad thing about pesticides is that it can kill unintended species and contaminate water when it runs off to a nearby water source.

The industry also causes a lot of air and water pollution by the construction of their factories. Factories built in places like China and Bangladesh release greenhouse gasses into the air and the machinery causes a lot of noise pollution. It may seem like this cannot affect us, but the pollution in those undeveloped and developing countries can make it here to the U.S when carried away by wind.

Finally the production of fabrics such as polyester and nylon uses a great amounts of water that become contaminated and can contaminate other bodies of water if not disposed of properly.

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1. The Fashion Industry is the second largest polluter in the world.
2. Suicide rates for cotton farmers have increased in the last  decade.
3.  The Fashion Industry is a 3 trillion dollar industry.
4. 80 billion pieces of clothing is consumed a year.

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The True Cost of The $3 Trillion Fashion Industry

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It's been just over two years since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed over a thousand workers when a textile factory tragically collapsed. Now, a new documentary that digs deep into the human and social cost of fast fashion hits the big screen.

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Fast fashion is a process in which fashion industries speed up the production of  clothing. They do this in order to capture new fashion trends and maximize their profits. Not only is this hurting our environment, but it is hurting your wallet and the life of people like the ones you see in this background picture.