The fast fashion industry is booming. Consumers are buying 60 per cent more clothes and wearing them for half as long, according to data cited by the UN Environment Programme. Estimates suggest a truckload of abandoned textiles is dumped in landfill or incinerated every second. The UN also highlights that the fashion industry produces between 2 to 8 per cent of global carbon emissions. If nothing changes, it will take a quarter of the world’s carbon budget by 2050. Alongside this, textiles shed microplastics when they are washed, contributing to the pollution in our oceans. The dyeing process …
