How fast fashion can cut its staggering environmental impact

Photo caption: Fast fashion results in new lines being added every week — instead of four times a year — most of which goes to landfill. Photo credit: Eve Edelheit / Bloomberg / Getty. Nature | Editorial – September 16, 2022.

The textiles industry urgently needs input from researchers to help it to embrace the circular economy.

Clothes were once used until they fell apart — repaired and patched to be re-used, ending their lives as dishcloths and oil rags. Not today. In high-income countries in particular, clothing, footwear and upholstered furniture are increasingly frequently bought, discarded and replaced with new fashions, which are themselves soon discarded and replaced. […]

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