http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/09/old-clothes-fashion-waste-crisis-494824.html H & M, a popular fast fashion retail company, has launched their "Conscious Collection" line which reuses old clothes to create new pieces. It promises sustainable fashion which truly does not exist in the world. Only 0.1 percent of clothing collected by charities and companies is recycled into new textile fiber, and H&M does not differ. It uses a similar process, and barely any salvaged clothing is truly recycled. According to the EPA, "84% of unwanted clothes went into either a landfill or incinerator" in 2012. The natural fibers used in clothes produce the greenhouse gas, methane, when they are degrading. Also, burning the clothes can release toxins in the air. Synthetic fibers are similarly an environmental threat as they take hundreds or thousands of years to degrade since they are essentially a type of plastic. The Newsweek article reveals that Americans are "blithely trashing more clothes than ever. In less than 20 years, the volume of clothing Americans toss each year has doubled from 7 million to 14 million tons, or an astounding 80 pounds per person." I found the article to be quite interesting. Normally when we brainstorm environmental troubles, we do not consider fashion to be one. H&M has a great idea to help the environment, but I do not think the company will be able to fulfill the promise of sustainable fashion. After reading this article, I think that we should all rethink tossing large amounts of clothing. The statistics presented in the article are extremely shocking to me as 80 pounds of clothes are tossed per person. The statistic reveals the overuse and incorrect use of the resources available to us.
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