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Companies create more clothes than we realistically need or want, or that we can dispose of safely. And because so much of it is all sold so cheaply, it becomes easy to buy – perhaps not even wear – and then to throw away. Boohoo – whose parent company also owns PrettyLittleThing – set a target of using 100% recycled or more sustainable textiles in their manufacturing by 2025. The report’s authors warn that they have a ‘mountain to climb’ if they are to meet this, and must reduce their overall volume of clothing sold. A 2019 enquiry found that Boohoo and Missguided are among the least sustainable companies in the entire UK fashion industry. As well as being inexpensive, polyester doesn't crease and can be washed at low temperatures. However, the laundry process also releases tiny fibers known as microplastics, which can be harmful to marine life. While polyester lasts for years, longevity is a double-edged sword — clothes can be worn many times but will likely end up in landfill, and don't biodegrade.

The truth is, we live in a global economic system that sees the exploitation of people and the environment as a fantastic opportunity to make huge profits. The import of discarded clothing in South America is concentrated in the Chilean harbour of Iquique in the economic free zone of Alto Hospicio. Every year 59,000 tonnes of clothing are brought here from around the world. What follows is a comparable ecological disaster. Clothing that cannot be used anymore – up to 40,000 tonnes a year – ends up in the adjacent Atacama Desert. What is notable is that many of the clothing in these dumps still have price tags. These are clothing that were not sold and were even never worn. Large fashion brands are responsible for this, but they act as though nothing happens. WILL THE EU PUT AN END TO THIS? At the same time, production of fossil fuel-based clothing has continued and is projected to grow in the next two decades. Oil and gas companies continue to bet on petrochemical products like polyester to drive their future growth as demand from transportation declines.

Brands currently "guess" how many pieces of each style they are going to produce, Lee said, and making the clothes takes three to six months before they are sent to stores or put online. What doesn't get sold at full price is marked down. "When it's so cheap, or 70% off, (people think) I don't really need it, but you know what 70% is worth it, (so) I'm going to get that. And then you buy stuff you don't really need," Lee said. The RSA (the royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce) is an independent charity, committed to a future that works for everyone. A future where we can all participate in its creation. Firstly, we can hold companies accountablefor their promises. For example, the UK’s Green Claims Codemight offer a way to call out companies that promise “green” collections or “recycled” garments.

Data on materials used by Shein was collected between November 1 and 15, 2021. Only women’s new clothing styles were sampled. Data from Asos, Missguided, PrettyLittleThing and Boohoo was collected between May 11 and 29, 2021 by The Royal Society for Arts and shared with Bloomberg News.Fresh analysis of more than 10,000 clothes reveals the colossal amounts of plastic going into the clothes we wear. The upcycling and reuse culture in Accra is a great example of what a more sustainable and circular fashion industry could look like. Brands have to be committed to say: I'm going to eliminate this raw material polyester, for example, from my supply chain in five to 10 years' time, forcing people to find alternative ways, which are more sustainable. It is the brands' CEOs' responsibility to do that," Lee said. In response to these findings, the RSA is calling for new measures to curb fashion’s plastic usage, including: A new @cleanclothes report shows why we’re urging garment brands to sign a binding agreement to make up for workers’ wage losses during the pandemic. Workers are owed 11bn USD and counting! #PayYourWorkers https://t.co/O8EiGKYpIn

Fashion should be about creativity and style, practicality and durability. But fast fashion companies have made it all about newness. And – even 10 years on from the Rana Plaza factory collapse – the fast fashion industry is still a chain of human misery. Some 75 million people (mostly women) are extremely poorly paid for skilled work in fashion manufacturing. Deadly industrial accidents still happen regularly.Fast fashion companies are becoming experts at offering false solutions. It’s good PR to at least seem to be trying. And sustainability is trendy now, right?

Traders and tailors in Accra’s Kantamanto market work hard to repurpose and sell the clothing that arrives on their shores. Much of the pain and deflation detailed here by Woolf lies in the gulf between the private pleasure of a garment and its public reception. How many of us have looked at ourselves in the mirror at home and felt delighted by a new outfit, only to have that joy punctured when we realise we are underdressed, overdressed, or somehow out of step with everyone else at an event? The feelings that result from these apparent 'fashion disasters' are awful and intimate: at once speaking to some of the deepest fears we hold about ourselves, and a symptom of the changing messages around what (and who) is considered fashionable and beautiful. Now that we know about the long history of fashion exploiting people and the planet – from cotton demand fuelling slavery to polyester driving oil production and pollution – it must become just that: history.Did you know that? Not many people do. And that’s likely why it just keeps getting worse: it’s thought that if nothing changes, by 2050 fashion will take up a quarter of the world’s carbon budget. A 2022 Greenpeace report found massive fashion waste exports pouring into Kenya and Tanzania. In 2019 alone, 185,000 tonnes of second-hand clothes were imported into Kenya. In East Africa this second hand fashion is called “Mitumba”, a Kiswahili word meaning bale or bundle, because it is typically sold to retailers in bales.

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