To begin with, fast fashion is a term used to describe a highly profitable business model based on replicating catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, and mass-producing them at low cost.

The problem with fast fashion is that it's the second most polluting industry after agriculture. This means that the production, the transport and shipping are affecting our ecosystem.

The ways of stopping the pollution of fast fashion are many. First, we can avoid fabrics made using petroleum and chemicals, because when washing these materials, they produce microfibers that end up threatening aquatic life; namely the fish and shellfish we eat every day.

Second, we can start producing and shopping locally, helping our atmosphere regenerate. Doing this our environment won't be affected so much by the transportation and the air will have a better quality.

Lastly, we can make producing clothes more eco-friendly. In other words, we can use more organic materials and less chemicals and things that could harm us and the environment.

In conclusion, if we try using any of the methods we just analyzed, we can improve our life and our planet on which we live.

  The pressure to reduce costs and speed up production time means that environmental corners are more likely to be cut. Fast fashion’s negative impact includes its use of cheap, toxic textile dyes making the fashion industry the second largest polluter of clean water globally after agriculture.

   There are some things we can do to reduce our Fashion Environmental Impact. One of them is to buy less, because even the greenest garment uses resources for production and transport to your home, creating some environmental impact. Another thing we can do is to buy clothes that have better quality. It will allow us to keep our clothes longer, which is good for our wallets and for the environment.

  Fast fashion is a term generally used to describe a very profitable business idea based on replicating new trends and high-fashion designs, and mass-producing them at a lower cost while selling them for twice the price. The issue is, most byproducts from textile factories in countries that produce fast fashion items in mass is untreated toxic wastewater which contain substances like lead, mercury and arsenic that are extremely harmful to aquatic and human life. This wastewater is, most of the times, dumped directly into rivers and seas. In addition, it doesn't only affect the human and aquatic life, it also negatively affects the economy. The rapid consumption of shirts and the need to deliver on short fashion cycles stresses production resources, often resulting in supply chains that put profits ahead of human welfare.

Fast fashion is the mass production of cheap, poor quality, disposable clothing. Because people know that the next trend will appear soon and their clothes will go out of fashion quickly, they don’t take care of them. This means they will throw them out faster, creating clothing waste.

This fast fashion system is wrong because most items are neither recycled nor donated. When everything is directed on making profit it is difficult to see human, work and environmental rights which get lost. With fast fashion a lot of clothing is lower in quality and harder to reuse or recycle. The rapid and cheap production of fast fashion create a lot of pollution and other environmental and social impacts such as pesticide use in industrial cotton growth, fossil fuel extraction for synthetic materials or slave labor in sweatshops. 

To stop this environmental and human cost, it is necessary for consumers to start demanding zero-waste fashion or sustainable fashion. This will create pressure on fast fashion companies around the world to change the way they manufacture and sale their products.