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Clothing Waste
How a big problem can be solved with a little effort.
Over-Clothing
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Did you know globally we now consume about 80 billion new pieces of clothing every year—400% more than we were consuming just two decades ago? There are 7.5 billion people on earth.
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Did you know approximately 70 million barrels of oil are used each year to make the world’s polyester fiber, which is now the most commonly used fiber in our clothing? It takes more than 200 years to decompose.
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Did you know fast fashion companies design clothes that fall apart quickly? They pursue a strategy called ‘Planned obsolescence’. This means to design garments to become unfashionable, wear out, lose shape or fall to pieces easily to force consumers to keep buying new clothes.
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Did you know Millennials (people born after 1981) are twice as likely as baby boomers to toss clothing because it is unfashionable or they are bored of wearing it?
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Did you know it takes 20,000 LITERS of water to produce one kilogram of cotton; equivalent to a single t-shirt and pair of jeans?
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Did you know roughly one-in-six people work in the global fashion industry?
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Did you know paying living wages to clothing workers would add just 1% on average to the retail price of a piece of clothing?
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Did you know only 10% of the clothes people donate to thrift stores or charities get sold, the rest goes to landfill?
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Did you know the average woman has $550 of unworn clothing in her closet having never worn at least 20% of the items in their wardrobes.
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Knowing what you do now, would you say you care more or less about the clothing industry problem?
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Knowing what you do now, would you be more or less inclined to change the way you live to help address the clothing problem?
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