“Today, the clothing trade generates some 170 billion garments a year…while also holding the distinction of being the world’s second-largest consumer and polluter of water.”

Huge mountains of used clothing that we waste, “fast fashion.”
#Pollution #Environment #Industry

https://grist.org/business/what-your-cheap-clothes-cost-the-planet/?utm_source=climate-desk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=climate-desk-newsletter-12-21-2025

What your cheap clothes cost the planet

A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage.

Grist

@BrownIsBeautiful Worse: more and more know this is more and more of a CRISIS, but do less and less about it - essentially condemning #GenZ and beyond, to one of the worst eras in human history.

Support future generations in #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries. Most modern industrialized nations are now beyond repairable #TippingPoints #Sustainability

@numodular We, the USA, have made a massive contribution to this environmental disaster. As soon as we finally started to try to make a dent in the damage we are doing, the felon was reelected. And now, in just about every arena imaginable, we are going decades backward. It’s pretty bad when China and Saudi Arabia are doing better at making improvements than we are. I’m so ashamed of my government.