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The fashion world is rapidly changing, due in part to the invention of the fast fashion industry. Fast fashion is a business model whereby clothing is mass produced for an incredibly cheap price, meaning that consumers are able to afford to fully change their wardrobe on a seasonal basis. Unfortunately, though, this fast fashion culture has had a number of impacts on the environment and so, it is imperative that changes are made to ensure that the fast fashion industry doesn’t doom the world.
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Since its first conception, fast fashion has rapidly taken over the shopping world. This now means that a large amount of the clothing options that we choose are items which are purchased for a cheap price and which can be replaced after just a season, in keeping with all of the trends of the moment.
One of the most surprising statistics is in relation to the sheer amount of clothing that our modern world now goes through on an annual basis. The biggest consumer of clothing in the entire world is Australia, whose inhabitants average an annual clothing consumption of approximately 27kg per year. However, the world statistics are even more shocking; as many as 8 billion items of clothing are sold around the world every year. This is double the size of the industry from fifteen years ago, and approximately four times the number of clothing sales made just two decades ago; this is clearly showing how our clothes buying habits have changed and evolved over the years.
This vast quantity of clothes is, on the whole, made by a team of low skilled and low paid Chinese workers, and these individuals are among the lowest paid in the world; in fact, nine in every ten workers in Bangladesh clothing factories say that they can’t even afford to eat on their wages. This clearly shows the severity of the situation that workers producing these fast fashion products are facing.
The clothes manufactured by these workers are then sold around the world, and in vast quantities. The fast fashion culture means that a large number of these garments will sadly go on to just be thrown away in favor of new and more fashionable garments as the seasons pass by. These will then end up in landfills, where they will slowly rot down over hundreds of years; in fact, it can easily take up to 200 years for a modern garment to rot away.
[B]What’s the Alternative?[/B]
The alternative to the current fast fashion crisis—in part, at least—is simple; donating your old clothes to charity is an excellent way of making sure that the clothes you once loved can continue to make others happy. Why wouldn’t you donate when you have the choice; find a local “[U][B][URL=https://pickupplease.org/clothing-donations/]clothing donation near me[/URL][/B][/U]†center such as ours today!
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