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More Information on Fast Fashion from the Preworn Website
- 20,000 litres of fresh water is used to make a cotton t-shirt and a pair of jeans. This is enough water for one person to live on for 27 years!
- 85% of plastic in the ocean is due to micro-fibres from synthetic clothing.
- In 2017, 83% of all tap water samples around the world contained microfibres from clothing.
- Each year, 2.77 trillion litres of fresh water is contaminated by the fabric dying industry.
- The fashion industry is responsible for over 10% of the worlds entire carbon footprint and this is due to exceed 25% by 2050.
- 1.3 billion tonnes of carbon emissions are produced every year in manufacturing new clothing.
- Nitrous Oxide emitted from cheap synthetic material are 300 times more damaging than CO2.
- Almost 70 million barrels of oil are used each year to make polyester.
- Over 70 million trees are logged each year to make fibres such as rayon, viscose, modal and lyocell.
- Over 90% of cotton grown is genetically modified and its production is responsible for 25% of total insecticide use and 18% of pesticide use.
- Cotton farmers are forced into unsustainable and dangerous practices by the fast-fashion industry leading to ill health and debt.
- 40% of all of the new clothing that is purchased in the United Kingdom is rarely or never worn.
- Approximately 12 million tonnes of clothing ends up in landfill globally each year!
- Global landfill waste would bury a football pitch 6 feet deep in clothing every single hour.
- A polyester jumper takes up to 200 years to break down and a pair of shoes up to 1,000 years.
- 85% of clothing that ends up in landfill could be reworn or reloved.
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