Fashion’s efforts to go green cancelled out by shopaholics (www.theguardian.com)

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A fashion industry push to reduce the environmental impact of the clothing it sells is being undermined by an ongoing addiction to buying new clothes, with the average Briton buying 28 items every year.

Asos and Primark are among the big names signed up to Wrap’s voluntary environmental pact, Textiles 2030.

While the companies involved have managed to reduce both the carbon intensity and volume of water per tonne used in their clothing manufacture, in its annual progress report, published today, the climate action NGO warns of hard-won gains being “cancelled out” because clothing production is “spiralling upwards”.

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

The whole point of the fashion industry is to constantly change what is fashionable and in style so people will buy new shit and throw out the stuff they purchased only recently.

Expecting an industry to agree to destroy their own business model is a fools game.

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