Sustainable Fashion: A guide to saving the planet.

 

Sustainable Fashion: A guide to saving the planet.

As the rise of fast fashion has covered the globe, climate change showed us how to become more sustainable in our day-to-day lives, especially in fashion.

For years now, the fashion industry has relied on Fast Fashion to create affordable and comfier outfits. However, it has impacted the planet by its way of creation, leading to humanitarian and climate crisis: water waste, chemical pollution, and human rights violation. This is when many ecological fashion enthusiasts began to use sustainable fashion as a way of saving the planet and lowering health risks, while advocating for human rights. This sustainability is highly recommended for our shopping routines, and here is why.

 

How to detect non-sustainable clothing:

In the past few years, fast fashion has taken the world with its cheap clothing. However, shops like H&M, Zara, Forever 21 and more have turned the climate into a disaster that we are now facing. It is no surprise as well that shops like Shein and Temu have also impacted the world, by growing a sort of addiction to many adults, with their overly cheap prices. Yet, these types of clothing never last long, making people consume them every day, leading to this drastic rise in fast fashion.

Detecting them shouldn’t be an issue. Most of the fabrics used have chemicals that cause great risk to our health and our planet. In fact, it is the main reason why the fashion industry is more of a threat to the world than any of the other chemical related industries. Here are the main chemicals that pollute the earth and damage our health:

-            Lead.

-            Polyester.

-            Microplastics.

-            Non-organic dye.

In addition, these chemicals pollute our water when we wash them. A good amount of microplastics end up sucked up by the water, leading to water pollution and microplastics in our environment. This could cause many health issues to our sea and its biodome. Whereas air pollution worsens by the tons of CO2 emitted while producing such clothes.

Lastly, human rights violation is also very common in the fast fashion industry with child labor, sexual abuse, verbal or physical abuse, modern slavery, and hazardous work conditions.

To this end, we now see many sustainable fashion companies who make sure all their products are long-lasting, organic and made with good hands.