Fast Fashion: How Are They Bad?


Defining Fast Fashion


If you go to large malls, and look to your left and right, you see shops like Zara, or H&M. But these companies sell items made specifically for trends. Now, when you make, say, a pair of jeans, obviously the taste changes in time and you will have to move onto something more trendy and classy for another short notice of time. 
Now this, is the definition of fast fashion. These items are produced cheaply, and what's more, they go out of trend easily.
Don't agree? Just compare the clothing trends of 2000 and the current trend. In the past 24 years, we see a noticeable change in trends.


Impact of Fast Fashion 

Now of course, this is a waste of hundreds of dollars in the customer's wallets. But just think about our planet. This has a massive impact on the health of Earth.
When you produce a huge mass of clothing in a factory, a lot of carbon emissions are produced. Over 10% of total global carbon emissions are by clothing factories. Imagine that huge amount.

Now of course, with change in taste comes a lot of laundering. Washing clothes alone release FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND tonnes of microplastics each year. And that, is equivalent to FIFTY BILLION plastic bottles. 

But of course. People are more obsessed with clothes rather than their own doom. If you actually do care about our planet, STOP OBSESSING OVER TRENDS. THEY WON'T HELP YOU IN THE END. THEY WILL CAUSE US OUR OWN END OF THE WORLD. (don't take it personally, I don’t mean to insult you)

If you keep going along with the current trend, Earth is going to go Big Bad. The End.








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