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Fast fashion’s legacy: toxic trash

WE are generating 92 million tons of textile waste every single year. What is not incinerated or landfilled is exported to countries in the Global South. CNN on May 9 featured the textile recycling ...
The reported sale is a stark reminder of how quickly the 2020s online retail boom has cooled.
Thrifting may have gone mainstream, but so has hyperconsumption. Chennai’s SustainabilATTI festival taps into street culture, ...
Singapore-based circular clothing enterprise Cloop said it does not want to encourage dumping of cheap clothing that cannot ...
Jeff Bezos is investing $34 million in lab-grown fabrics. Could bacteria-fed fibers finally make fast fashion sustainable?
It is estimated that more than half of all fast fashion items purchased are disposed of in less than a year. And, in Ireland, we have one of the highest consumption rates of textiles in the EU at 53kg ...
In the past few months alone, Stella McCartney has been appointed an ­ambassador of King Charles III’s ­Sustainable Markets ...
Vintage Rare USA, an online retailer specializing in vintage clothing, today announced the launch of its newly redesigned ...
Panipat's textile recycling industry does not exist in spite of poverty—it exists because global economics dictated that the cheapest place to process the wealthy world's discarded clothing is a ...
Sustainability promised to change the industry. With Shein reportedly acquiring Everlane, and Allbirds pivotting from eco sneakers to AI, it seems that promise was mostly marketing ...
In an attempt to fulfil our complex needs and find a unique expression of identity and to feel comfortable, or many a time to be accepted by ...