Fashion pollution

The environmental cost of fast fashion. These images, taken by photographer @martinbernetti_photojournalist, show at least 39,000 tons of clothes dumped in Chile's Atacama Desert. The items are largely waste from the fast fashion industry. "These textile scraps come from all over the world and the problem is that the clothes are not biodegradable and contain chemicals, so they are not accepted in municipal landfills." According to the World Economic Forum, the fashion industry produces 10%…

Burnaby’s Mark Angelo is at the centre of a new film highlighting the fashion industry’s harmful effects on streams and rivers around the world.

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You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true.

Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

Fast Fashion’s Graveyard A documentary film by Ian Berry - COMING SOON - Artist Ian Berry makes a documentary about the clothes waste in the Atacama Desert in Chile named Fast Fashion’s Graveyard -&

As the West continues to mass produce cheap clothes, a lot of it ends up barely worn, donated or in a landfill. In Ghana, the deluge of worn-out fashions has overwhelmed the West African country's infrastructure and poses huge environmental threats to its coastlines.

Tucked behind sand dunes throughout Chile’s Atacama Desert, heaps of branded jackets and hiking shoes that never found a second life were some of the most striking images that made their way around the world about a year ago. The “world’s dumpster,” as some international outlets came to call the estimated 741 deserted acres of clothing junkyards, had quietly taken shape in the planet’s most arid desert. The hundreds of acres of amassed trash — countless articles of clothing, both torn and…

Congratulations you have just finished buying the latest dress and are now up to date on the newest trend; however, two weeks later that dress you just bought

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The rate at which clothes are being produced today has resulted in many types of pollution, causing damage to the land, water, air and the people and animals that share this planet. We’ll break down some of the worst ways that fashion contributes to pollution, and its effect on the environment. #sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion #sustainableclothing #ethicalclothing #slowfashion

The quick turnover of fashion trends — and popular plastic-based textiles such as polyester — comes at a steep environmental cost.