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Did you know that the fast fashion industry is the second most polluting industry, right after oil!
Everyday people go for shopping and buy clothes at dirt cheap prices, which are most probably made in a sweatshop. When these people go home they throw away the clothes that they do not need. Many of those clothes about 80% go into landfills, mostly in the global south. These decomposing clothes in landfills release harmful methane gas, that is causing global warming. If we go back to how these clothes are made, we can see that most of these cheap clothes are made under poor regulation of safety laws, which allows the factory owners to dump their chemical waste in rivers in the global south. Thus polluting the drinking water with chemicals like chromium 6, which are absorbed by plants and used as drinking water by animals and humans, The water is causing diseases like cancer and skin diseases to people living in nearby villages. Moreover, the pollution from the smoke released from the textile industry.
