Fashion pollution

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Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

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You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true.

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Burnaby’s Mark Angelo is at the centre of a new film highlighting the fashion industry’s harmful effects on streams and rivers around the world.

Congratulations you have just finished buying the latest dress and are now up to date on the newest trend; however, two weeks later that dress you just bought

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

As the West continues to mass produce cheap clothes, a lot of it ends up barely worn, donated or in a landfill. In Ghana, the deluge of worn-out fashions has overwhelmed the West African country's infrastructure and poses huge environmental threats to its coastlines.

60,000 tons of used clothes decorate the Atacama Desert in Chile, becoming the backyard scenery in the north part of the country. Mountains and mountains

Workers and the environment suffer as trendy, inexpensive clothes are swiftly mass produced in subcontracted factories and sold in chain stores world-wide

Fast fashion and the environment We live in a world of fast fashion, a model that relies on frequent, trend-driven, impulse buying of cheaply manufactured clothing that often ends up in the trash. The fashion industry now accounts for 10% of global pollution and is second only to aviation as the world’s largest industrial polluter. […]

Wan Yunfeng’s distinctive gowns are crafted from discarded items, draped and twisted around his body and photographed to send a message about the destructive power of human consumption.

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A portrait series called Soft Shells by Canadian photographer Libby Oliver

Worldwide, short product lifecycles, including cheaply made garments produced at high volumes, textile waste, and production waste byproducts occurring down the supply chain have resulted in 92 million tons of annual landfill and incinerated pollution. Beyond the physical waste produced, the exploitive working conditions in clothing manufacturing have broad social ramifications on human health and...