What Is The Deal With Sustainable Clothing?
The multi billion dollar fashion industry has a lot to answer for. Every 10 minutes Australians ditch about 6 tonnes of poorly made, mostly plastic, barely worn clothes into landfill, to swap out for new trends. Clothing with an expiry date, that can’t break down. Workers (mostly women, as well as children) are being pushed to inhumane limits in poor conditions as they try to make a living for their families and themselves. 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon is being sent into our atmosphere annually as a result of clothes manufacturing. It is a huge contribution to rising seas, warming...