Industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

Clothes in your suitcase are screwing up the planet more than the flight you put them on

Circular Fibres Initiative - Collaborative effort to find solutions to textile waste and promote sustainable fashion practices

The number of years the amount of water that is used to make ONE piece of clothing for a single human being is shocking and not many people even know about it

“do you really need that jacket as much as

someone needs 10,000 liters of water”

Ellen Macarthur Foundation - sets out ambitions and actions – based on the principles of a circular economy – to design out negative impacts and capture a USD 500 billion economic opportunity by truly transforming the way clothes are designed, sold, and used.

Synthetic fibers are even worse. Polyester, nylon, spandex use almost 342 million barrels of oil a year. → Lululemon yoga pants as an example.

The rayon and viscose that forests “donate” to fashion industries takes a huge toll on the environment around them

33% of viscose from clothes are made from ancient or threatened forests

Process involves a huge amount of waste

Raises awareness of the human-caused factors contributing to environmental degradation and the urgent need for collective action to safeguard these precious landscapes.

What is the point of disposing of 70% of the shredded wood to obtain the rayon and viscose instead of putting it towards some other product that also uses it

The Citarum River, Indonesia's longest, is choked by pollution, posing a grave threat to the environment and the health of millions who depend on it.

Dikanaya Tarahita, Program Director of the Bandung-based environmental organization Ecoton: "We found lead levels in the Citarum River to be 1,000 times higher than the U.S. drinking water standards."

Discusses the growing problem of textile waste and the challenges of clothing recycling. The article also explores potential solutions, such as closed-loop recycling technology.

"In less than 20 years, the volume of clothing Americans toss each year has doubled from 7 million to 14 million tons, or an astounding 80 pounds per person. The EPA estimates that diverting all of those often-toxic trashed textiles into a recycling program would be the environmental equivalent of taking 7.3 million cars and their carbon dioxide emissions off the road."

This is an article about the afterlife of cheap clothes. It discusses where clothes go when you donate them and the challenges of textile waste. “We see people throwing away new stuff every day,” says Maui, an employee at the Salvation Army. “There are always enough clothes,” he says.

One salvation Army Center in NY creates 18 tons of unwanted clothes every 3 days 

For all the fabric used in clothing, 87% just ends up landfilled or incinerated

This report rips apart the glossy veneer of fast fashion, exposing a hidden world of perilous chemicals harming workers, consumers, and the environment.

"The impacts of chemicals banned in the final product but allowed in the manufacturing process, like dyes, polyfluorinated chemicals, and flame retardants, are striking. In China, 70 percent of the rivers and lakes are polluted, and in Bangladesh, the Buriganga River is so polluted with toxic chemicals and heavy metals prevalent in the leather tanning industry that it can no longer sustain aquatic life."