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Articles, news, and campaigns on plastic-free and slow fashion — written by our team and curated from the wider industry.
If you have ever taken old clothes to a recycling bank, be it in the UK or North America, there is a real chance that the garments ended up illegally dumped in a desert in northern Chile.
Fast fashion is the highly profitable global industry that mass-produces cheap, low-quality clothes and accessories. It continuously creates fashion trends and gets products ready for sale quickly.
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second, the UN chief has warned.
In a circular economy, products and materials are kept in circulation through processes like maintenance, reuse, refurbishment, remanufacture, recycling, and composting.
The fashion industry is responsible for 8-10% of global emissions - and British shoppers buy more clothes than any others in Europe.