A lot has been written on the topic of fast fashion – here’s a collect of some shockingly informative articles and reports
- Timeout for fast fashion Greenpeace
- Your brand new returns end up in landfill BBC Earth
- Clothing to dye for: the textile sector must confront water risks Guardian, Aug 13
- How your clothes are poisoning our oceans and food supply Guardian, Jun 16
- Style that’s sustainable: A new fast-fashion formula McKinsey, Oct 16
- Primary microplastics in the oceans International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Feb 17
- The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics World Resources Institute, Jul 17
- One garbage truck of textiles wasted every second: report creates vision for change Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Nov 17
- A new textiles economy: redesigning fashion’s future Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Dec 17
- Fashion and the SDGs: what role for the UN? United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Mar 18
- Putting the brakes on fast fashion United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nov 18
- Environmental impact of the textile and clothing industry European Parliament, Jan 19
- By the Numbers: The Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of “Fast Fashion” World Resources Institute, Jan 19
- How a £1 bikini revealed the changing shape of fast fashion Guardian, Jun 19
- The fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined Business Insider, Oct 19
- The environmental price of fast fashion Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Apr 20
- Fast fashion speeding toward environmental disaster, report warns Guardian, Apr 20
- Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus Biology Letters, Jun 20
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