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Cartoon: Fast fashion → Buy better, wear longer Worn five times,landfill for 200 years.

Instead of

Fast fashion Buy better, wear longer

Why switch

Healthier

Cheap synthetic clothes shed microfibres and can carry dye and finishing chemicals; loved, well-washed garments shed far less.

Greener

The industry is roughly 10% of global emissions; doubling how long clothes are worn roughly halves their footprint.

The impact

You, per year 25 kg CO₂
All of the world 203 billion kg CO₂ skipped / year

If everyone across the world switched, every year that’s:

  • 203 billion kg CO₂

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Reduce

Buy fewer, better pieces — and wear what you already own more.

Reuse

Second-hand, swaps and repairs keep clothes in play for years.

Recycle

Donate or resell wearable items; textile-bank the rest, never bin them.

Sources

  1. Niinimäki et al. (2020), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment — the environmental price of fast fashion (water, CO₂, textile waste)
  2. UN Environment Programme — fashion is ~10% of global emissions; doubling how long clothes are worn sharply cuts their footprint
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