Slow Fashion Movement

Описание: Happy Earth Day!
In this video we discuss the problems with “fast fashion” an often forgotten issue of our modern world. Leyna shares her personal story of realizing how interconnected the world is and the consequences fast fashion in the West can have on global economies. Chloe also offers some tips and tricks for sustainable fashion. Let’s practice “slow fashion” and work for a more sustainable world in any way we can- that means what we wear! Thank you friends.

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“More than 60 percent of fabric fibers are now synthetics, derived from fossil fuels, so if and when our clothing ends up in a landfill (about 85 percent of textile waste in the United States goes to landfills or is incinerated), it will not decay.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyti...

“It takes 2,700 liters of water to make one cotton shirt, enough to meet the average person’s drinking needs for two-and-a-half years.” & “Garment workers, primarily women, in Bangladesh make about $96 per month. The government’s wage board suggested that a garment worker needs 3.5 times that amount in order to live a “decent life with basic facilities.”

https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/01/numb...

Treatment of workers in clothing factories: https://cleanclothes.org/issues/worki...