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related articles:
“Care What You Wear - - Fixing Fast Fashion” by Dr. Mercola; mercola.com - ‘In recent years, the true cost of cheap clothing and so-called “fast fashion” has become better understood, and with that knowledge, a call to change is being sounded.’
“Fast Fashion Is Creating an Environmental Crisis” by Alden Wicker; Newsweek - ‘Visitors who stepped into fashion retailer H&M's showroom in New York City on April 4, 2016, were confronted by a pile of cast-off clothing reaching to the ceiling.’
“How Our Obsession With Fast Fashion Might Be Doing More Harm Than We Think” by Tiffany Frasier; Obsessed Magazine - ‘Fast fashion giants such as Zara and H&M are pioneering the “wear it once and toss it” mentality.’
“The Clothes You Donate Don’t Always End Up On People’s Backs” by Cory Rosenberg; Mother Nature Network - ‘When you drop off that bag of old clothes at your local Goodwill, though, there's probably one thing you aren't thinking about: those clothes don't always go to those who need them — or to anyone at all. Believe it or not, a large portion of the clothing you donate ends up in landfills.’
“What Happens to Your Rubbish? The ABC is Launching a War on Waste” by Craig Reucassel; ABC Radio Darwin - ‘Our waste is growing at double the rate of our population with 52 mega tonnes generated a year.’
“Where Does Discarded Clothing Go?” by Elizabeth Cline; The Atlantic - ‘In New York City, clothing and textiles account for more than six percent of all garbage, which translates to 193,000 tons tossed annually.’
facts & statistics - sweatshop labor:
“11 Facts About Sweatshops” DoSomething.org - ‘A "sweatshop" is defined by the US Department of Labor as a factory that violates 2 or more labor laws.’
“26 Stunning Modern Day Sweatshops Statistics and Facts” VisionLaunch - Some sweatshops also have policies that severely restrict worker’s rights and freedoms, like having no rest days, limited bathroom breaks, and no wage increases.
“The Ethics of Buying Clothes Produced in Sweatshops” by Nipa Banerjee; Centre for International Policy Studies, uOttawa - ‘Over 60 million skilled and unskilled workers — the majority of them women and children — work in mass production textile factories (or sweatshops) in the export-oriented industries of developing nations. They work in exploitative conditions — hazardous environments with low wages — while the owners of these factories in the developing nations, and the multinationals of developed nations that buy the products, make enormous profits.’
“Soon There Won’t Be Much to Hide - Transparency in the Apparel Industry” by Brian Stauffer; Human Rights Watch - ‘One day in April 2013, Shabana went to work in the garment factory where she was a seamstress, feeding cloth, hour after hour, day after day, through ravenous sewing machines in a room filled with hundreds of women doing just the same…At least 1,134 other workers in the building died, and more than 2,000 were injured.’