Suspect 1. Fast Fashion
The fashion industry produces 10% of global CO2 emissions.
Which is more than all shipping and aviation emissions combined.
Demand for fast fashion has risen 60% since 2000.
More than 150 billion new garments were produced in 2022 alone
Over 50% of textiles used in fast fashion are synthetic and made from fossil fuels.
An estimated 342 million barrels of oil are used each year in the production of synthetic fibres.
The Fashion Industry consumes 32 million olympic size swimming pools of water per year.
It takes a lot of energy to pump, treat and heat water, with large amounts of greenhouse gas being emmited as a by product
Textile waste weighing the same as 9000 eiffel towers ends up in landfill or is burned each year.
Methane, a greenhouse gas that is at least 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide and a major contributor to Climate Change, is released when landfills are burned.
