Emma the Curious 🧐 has moved!May 25, 2023

I knew fast fashion was awful.

I didn't realise the scale of the problem.

"Today, three-fifths of all clothing ends up in landfills or incinerators within a year of production—a statistic that translates into a truckload of used clothing dumped or burned every second."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chile-fashion-pollution

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And this one has horrifying images from Ghana, where "Some 15 million used garments pour into Accra every week from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, flooding the city’s sprawling clothing market."

and

"40 per cent are of such poor quality they are deemed worthless on arrival and end up dumped in landfill."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702

Dead white man's clothes: How fast fashion is turning parts of Ghana into toxic landfill

For decades, the West's unwanted fashion has made its way to used-clothing markets in Africa. Now it's fuelling an environmental catastrophe.

ABC News
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@UnconventionalEmma Ghana was also a place where old computers and TV sets went to be landfilled. And the locals would burn the plastic off the wiring to get at the metals, which were precious, inhaling toxic fumes along the way...
May 25, 2023 at 11:06amWeb