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This article describes the true meaning and damaging aspects behind it, and in order to move against it, we must realize what we are pushing against.

https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/what-is-fast-fashion

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This article sheds light on the city Leicester, the city that once claimed to clothe the world, and the horrible conditions and terms these workers are under because of fast fashion.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48226187

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Three reasons why fast fashion is becoming a problem

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Three reasons why fast fashion is becoming a problem

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According to Forbes,three reasons why fast fashion is becoming a problem is low wages and terrible conditions for workers, polyester pollution, and more clothing produced equals more waste.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2019/05/13/three-reasons-why-fast-fashion-is-becoming-a-problem-and-what-to-do-about-it/#304a0079144b

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"No more daily deliveries for me", Delphine Chui from Elle magazine decided to ditch throw away fashion and decides to switch to classic pieces that she'll be able to repair and maintain or sell on.

https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/a27237129/timeless-pieces/

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Foreign fast fashion brands face falling sales in China

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Foreign fast fashion brands face falling sales in China

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A growing number of foreign fast fashion brands that used to fill the wardrobes of young Chinese have been going out of style.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149687.shtml

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Scientists Create New Plastic that Could Be Fully Recyclable

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Scientists Create New Plastic that Could Be Fully Recyclable

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Plastic material is flooding landfills and causing severe damage in the world's oceans. It has been estimated that even the most reusable kinds of plastic can only be recycled at a rate of 20 to 30 percent. Even when recycling is possible, the process is costly, can use a lot of energy and, in many cases, produces poor-quality materials.

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/scientists-create-new-plastic-that-could-be-fully-recyclable-/4911057.html

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Vermont House Passes Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban

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Vermont House Passes Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban

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After a lengthy debate Thursday, the Vermont House gave final approval Friday morning to legislation that would ban single-use plastic grocery bags and styrofoam carryout containers. It would also require restaurants and other establishments to provide plastic straws only by customer request.

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2019/05/10/vermont-house-passes-single-use-plastic-bag-ban

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City looks to cut back waste from single-use plastics

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City looks to cut back waste from single-use plastics

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Last May, council asked city administrators to explore ways of cutting back on one-time-use plastic items including bags, stir sticks, straws, utensils and takeout containers, as well as polystyrene products, commonly known as Styrofoam.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/regulation-or-innovation-city-looks-to-cut-back-waste-from-single-use-plastics

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Delaware House to vote on banning single-use plastic bags

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Delaware House to vote on banning single-use plastic bags

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The state House is set to vote on a bill that largely prohibits retailers in Delaware from providing single-use carryout plastic bags to customers.The bill to be voted on Tuesday is aimed at cutting down on the amount of plastic bags cluttering landfills, littering roadways and clogging storm water systems.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/delaware-house-to-vote-on-banning-single-use-plastic-bags/2019/05/13/272beb1a-755b-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bd49bccf6d5f

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Class project turns into passion project raising awareness about fast fashion

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Class project turns into passion project raising awareness about fast fashion

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A group of arts management students are trying to make fashion more sustainable with a clothing swap and fashion show this Thursday called The Changing Room Columbus.“Fast fashion has created this mindset that you can get the styles that people on red carpets are getting, but for a fraction of the cost,” Sonny Davis, a fourth-year in arts management and executive director of The Changing Room, said. “But that’s the only thing that they think about. They don’t think about where those clothes are coming from, why they’re so cheap and what effect supporting that company has on the world.”
https://www.thelantern.com/2019/04/class-project-turns-into-passion-project-raising-awareness-about-fast-fashion/

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Missoula officials propose ban on single-use plastic bags

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Missoula officials propose ban on single-use plastic bags

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Missoula officials are writing an ordinance to ban the distribution of single-use plastic bags at the city’s largest retail stores as a public nuisance.
https://kpax.com/news/missoula-county/2019/05/13/missoula-officials-propose-ban-on-single-use-plastic-bags/

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UN agency meets to tackle pollution and emissions by ships

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UN agency meets to tackle pollution and emissions by ships

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This week is the 74th meeting of the marine environmental protection committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and it represents one of the best hopes of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from a large and growing sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/14/un-agency-meets-to-tackle-pollution-and-emissions-by-ships

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Is Your City Smart About How to Protect You From Pollution?

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Is Your City Smart About How to Protect You From Pollution?

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The report notes that, “examples of racial zoning are ubiquitous in planning history.” These same local zoning codes and land-use policies are now being used to address both existing and future pollution sources concentrated in low-income communities and communities of color.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/05/is-your-city-smart-about-how-to-protect-you-from-pollution/

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Air Pollution Fears Put London’s Ice Cream Trucks at Risk

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Air Pollution Fears Put London’s Ice Cream Trucks at Risk

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Lining up at an ice cream van in Richmond, southwest London. Councils are threatening to yank the trucks off the streets if they do not become more environmentally friendly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/world/europe/london-ice-cream-trucks-pollution.html

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Isotopes Help Trace the Origin of Urban Water Pollution in Mauritius

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Isotopes Help Trace the Origin of Urban Water Pollution in Mauritius

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Agricultural activities, illegal sewage disposal and animal breeding could be among the sources of nitrogen pollution in urban waterways around Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, according to preliminary findings of an IAEA-supported study using isotopic techniques. In excessive levels, some compounds of nitrogen, such as nitrate, can find their way into urban waterways and pose a danger to people and the environment.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/isotopes-help-trace-the-origin-of-urban-water-pollution-in-mauritius

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THE EVIDENCE IS STRONG: AIR POLLUTION SEEMS TO CAUSE DEMENTIA

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THE EVIDENCE IS STRONG: AIR POLLUTION SEEMS TO CAUSE DEMENTIA

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They were there to learn about how scientists were beginning to link air pollution from power plants, motor vehicles, forest fires, you name it—to one of the least understood and most frightening of illnesses: dementia.
https://www.wired.com/story/air-pollution-dementia/

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Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction

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Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction

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The melons, found on a single low-lying island between Australia and Papua New Guinea, appears to have been done in by climate change, which has shrunk its habitat and brought ever more damaging flooding.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/climate-change-and-the-new-age-of-extinction

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Carbon dioxide hits a level not seen for 3 million years. Here's what that means for climate change

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Carbon dioxide hits a level not seen for 3 million years. Here's what that means for climate change

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In the latest bit of bad news for a planet beset by climate change, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has climbed to a level last seen more than 3 million years ago — before humans even appeared on the rocky ball we call home.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/carbon-dioxide-hits-level-not-seen-3-million-years-here-ncna1005231

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Australian islanders file landmark climate change complaint against government

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Australian islanders file landmark climate change complaint against government

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A group of indigenous people from low-lying islands off the coast of Australia on Monday lodged an unprecedented complaint against the country's government, accusing it of insufficient action on climate change.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/13/australia/torres-strait-islanders-australia-climate-change-intl/index.html

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Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea

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Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea

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Over the last four years, The New York Times staff photographer Josh Haner has been documenting with stills and video the effects of climate change around the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/lens/climate-change-josh-haner-air-land-and-sea.html

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Bold action on climate change needed now we have declared emergency

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Bold action on climate change needed now we have declared emergency

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ast week, Ireland became the second country in the world, after the UK, to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency. It followed a UN report on climate change that made for grim reading. The report, commissioned on the back of the 2015 Paris Agreement warned that global warming caused by humans is speeding up as opposed to slowing down.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/bold-action-on-climate-change-needed-now-we-have-declared-emergency-1.3890939

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These four environmental topics, climate change, plastic use, pollution, fast fashion are very important in my eyes. However, I feel like fast fashion is a topic that gets swept under the rug and does not get enough attention. Fast fashion is defined as inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass market retailers in response to the latest trends. Many celebrities day to day show off the latest trends most popular in fashion. By the next week, there is already new trends the celebrities are showing off. Having the million of followers they have, everyone is influenced by these fashion icons and is already searching for the latest that they are wearing. Online website realtors and even stores are already stocked with items like this. The pieces are produced in sweatshops. Sweatshops are defined as a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Even though these clothing pieces look great, they were produced in terrible conditions. As a shopper, people look past those working conditions and wages and still opt to buy the cheap clothing items. By the next week, the mall and the online clothing retailers are stocked with the newest and the latest. Kim Kardashian’s fashion trends are one of the more popular trends being copied. She posted on social media a dress made by a very expensive designer and by the next day, Fashion Nova, an online clothing page, had already had the dress made and ready to purchase. This is outrageous and not enough light is shed on it. People when looking at this dress on Fashion Nova does not realize the conditions and fast hours these people in sweatshops took to produce this dress. Kim Kardashian and the designer also were angry because of the dedication and specifics the very expensive dress held, just to get copied under poor conditions for the sake of fast fashion. A new trend will be exposed the very next week and the same thing will happen. Social media stars and celebrities should not be held accountable for starting these fast fashion trends, rather the people buying the pieces. I as a shopper am starting to be more conscious of these trends when shopping and choosing stores that do not promote fast fashion. My friends and I are also always open to share clothes and go through each others closets. My sister and I are also very close in age and share clothes rather than just each of us buying the newest clothes that come and go in fast fashion. This topic doesn’t get talked about enough because the people will buy the clothes they can afford and I cannot blame them because I am accountable for doing the same. But, I can make an effort to stop this and myself and friends to become aware of fast fashion.