Textiles
Each year, the fashion industry generates 92 million tons of textile waste. It’s the seceond largest polluter in the world, producing 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 20% of global wastewater.
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Funding Sustainable Fashion Startups
As a nearly $3 trillion industry, the fashion industry harbors much opportunity for a profitable transition to more sustainable practices.
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Rental Clothing
Every year, $460 billion worth of usable clothing is sent to landfills in the US. An up-and-coming industry that is trying to remedy this problem is the online rental clothing industry.
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Biodegradable Packaging
How are the current systems that produce, use, recover, and process plastics affecting the environment and the economy? What are our alternatives?
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Period Poverty in Fast Fashion Factories: In Conversation with Prachi Gor
While the ready-made garment sector in India employs 12.9 million people, one issue that impacts approximately 80 percent of garment workers often goes unaddressed: menstruation. Factories contracted by Western fast fashion brands often limit access to menstrual hygiene in their facilities in order to prevent decreased productivity. This lack of hygiene infrastructure is coupled with…
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