Fast Fashion
Pressure Your Favourite Brands
The current linear fashion model of buy, wear, discard is no longer sustainable at its current pace, and is negatively impacting the planet, its creatures and people.
WHAT CAN YOU DO IN 4 MINUTES?
Pressure Your Favourite Brands
HOW?
Grab your favourite item in your wardrobe, snap a picture of it or you wearing it, and tag that brand – ask them what they are doing to reduce their environmental footprint, or who made your clothes?
#slowfashion v.s. #fastfashion
Follow the slow fit and other secondhand shops to keep the circular economy going!
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References
References
This article from The World Resources Institute outlines the apparel industry’s 6 greatest impacts in easy to digest graphics.
WHAT?
Recognizing fast fashion and holding the industry to account is something we can all do to influence fast fashion and fashion retailers to act with better environmental and human rights policies
WHO?
We are all affected by fast fashion, but especially garment workers who are forced to work for unlivable wages and in intolerable conditions, just so we can buy something for less than a coffee and throw it out when we’re over it
GOAL
Fashion companies take crucial steps to reducing their impact on the environment and garment workers
SOLUTION
Raise awareness to the detrimental effects of fast fashion and hold brands to account publicly
Get to know which brands align with your values by seeing if they respond
Before going shopping to buy more items, find out if the retailers you love most are contributing to fast fashion.
MORE INFO
This article from The World Resources Institute outlines the apparel industry’s 6 greatest impacts in easy to digest graphics.
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