about a week ago, watso got the tail end of a news story - something about cotton farmers in senegal having problems competing with imports of second hand clothing. part of the story was how much textile waste some western countries produce - the winner was USA, which produces 30kg per person per year...
Fashion can be fun, but it also produces huge volumes of waste. When last year’s big look becomes this year’s big yawn, we have to start asking questions about the life cycle of the clothing industry. What are the real costs of stores and closets filled with clothing that is cheap and destined for the landfill? According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Americans each discard about 30 kg of ‘waste’ clothing and textiles each year...
it almost seems that people buy new clothes, instead of washing them.
