Sustainable Fashion
What is Sustainable Fashion?
The fashion industry is responsible for over 8% of total greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable Fashion refers to a clothing supply chain that is ecologically and socially responsible. Now is the opportunity to shift the industry and consumers away from the fast fashion model and toward sustainable practices in sourcing, production, distribution, marketing and consumption.
Source: https://www.earthday.org/
Benefits of shopping second-hand
First and foremost, it supports the Clothing Connection and students!
Secondly, it keeps items out of the landfill. You have most likely heard “Reduce, reuse, recycle” as one of the core values of sustainable living. We should reduce the amount that we consume and then we ought to reuse what already exists in the world. Second-hand shopping lowers the impact of the things we consume as we’re reusing things that have already been produced and we are diverting them from landfills.
The outfit you’re looking for, already exists!
Fast Fashion 101
Rapid mass production of stylish, inexpensive clothes is known as fast fashion. The phenomenon has created so much waste, the United Nations terms it “an environmental and social emergency” for the planet. National Geographic article
Resources:
Read:
Bend Source article Wasted in Bend: Clothing in the Landfill February, 2019
The Environmental Center article Your Old Clothes: Too hole-y, even for church? February, 2019
EcoWatch article Fast Fashion is an Environmental Catastrophe. Is composting your cloths the solution? November, 2022
Selling, Donating, and Recycling Old Clothing
Watch:
The Ugly Truth of Fast Fashion, Patriot Acti with Hasan Minhaj