Apparel September 2019 Apparel September 2019 issue | Page 46

FEATURE
FASHION
FOR GOOD
With ethics and slowness in fashion
calling out with urgency today, Anurima
Das writes of the recent developments
in the realm of sustainable apparel.
It is an established fact that fashion leaves a long trail
of impacts on the environment. The United States
(US) alone produces more than 16 million tonnes of
textile waste every year, and this amount has drastically
doubled within the last 20 years, as per the data
collected by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency. This waste, generated by the fashion industry
at large, ends up in landfills in huge amounts, and has
been a matter of growing concern the world over. As
a result of this, brands, designers, and individuals are
now motivated to embrace newer techniques and
methods through which they can subjugate this issue
and adopt practices that pose the least harm to the
entire ecosystem.
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