is reportedly the world's second most polluting industry after oil, but shopping for 'sustainable' fabrics isn't enough. We need to tackle our obsession with quantity as intensely as we need to tackle the quality. Who needs eight white t-shirts anyway? And don't get us started on the endless pairs of jeans stuffed into your drawers.
With roughly £140 million worth of clothing going to landfill in the UK every year, may we beg that you don't add to the problem. According to , synthetic fabrics like polyester and lycra can take hundreds of years to biodegrade - a process which itself releases methane, a harmful greenhouse gas.