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Sustainability Issues
The Issues: Water
Water is the foundation of all life, and yet global supplies of fresh water are being used up at an alarming rate. The fashion industry relies heavily on water for its own survi...
Sustainability Issues
The Issues: Waste
Despite the well-aired public mantra of ‘reduce, re-use, recycle’, it’s estimated that the fashion industry creates around 13 kilograms of fashion waste for every person o...
Sustainability Issues
The Issues: Pollution
With more than 100 billion items of clothing and 14 billion pairs of shoes sold in 2016, all requiring often long and complex production processes and heavy use of energy, there...
Sustainability Issues
The Issues: Energy
To reach the Paris Climate Agreement target of holding planetary temperatures at just 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the global community must achieve zero carbon emis...
Sustainability Issues
The Issues: Chemicals
Around 8,000 synthetic chemicals are used in the fashion, textile and footwear industry to turn raw materials into final products. Not only do these chemicals pose health hazard...
Sustainability Issues
Fashion's Key Environmental Issues
Waste More than 100 billion items of clothing and 14 billion pairs of shoes were sold in 2016 - that’s a lo...
Sustainability Issues
The Issues: Biodiversity
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest threats to our planet but what exactly does it mean and what impact does fashion have on this existential threat? CO provides an overview o...
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