Fast-fashion retailers became giants by quickly churning out fresh, low-priced styles that pull trend-seekers into stores.
last year that it regularly burns unsold products. Cartier owner Compagnie Financiere Richemont has bought back unsold watches and melted them down to be used in new designs. That recycles materials but still involves a double dose of manufacturing.last year by reporting $4.3 billion of inventory on hand — an amount that had been creeping upward, indicating that it was producing more than it could sell.
Luxury fashion company Burberry used to destroy its unsold merchandise, getting rid of $38 million worth during its financial year ending in March 2018. Investors questioned the practice last year during Burberry’s annual meeting,. Two months later, the company announced it would stop destroying products. Instead, it donates or recycles the items and tries harder to make only as much as people will buy.
That realization is dawning for other kinds of consumer behavior too. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg famously shunned airplane travel this summer, taking a zero-emissions sailboat to New York for the UN’s climate conference, and she is using an electric car rather than a petroleum-burning vehicle to drive around North America.
Reduce/reuse is the key. Consider cotton bc polyester fabrics create microplastics. Thrift stores are a great start. clothes still have a lot of life left. Dont buy into fast fashion. Its stupid and wasteful. Its also really cheap material/construction. Buy things that last.
Thrift store sorting areas have mountains of tossed clothing; many times brand new! Hi-Fashion buyers and new/niche recyclers in key areas, can create successful wearable businesses of many kinds! 😎
Climate change is because of government policy related to extraction and use of fossil fuels. Stop using misleading headlines that obscure important facts about a very serious issue.
Recycle is key
Would be nice either way