5 ways circular economy will transform your fashion habits
- Clothing production has doubled in the last 15 years while clothing use has shrunk by more than a third.
- The fast fashion business model is unsustainable, with its low manufacturing costs and reliance on consumer demand.
- The circular economy aims to address the environmental, social and waste impacts whilst changing our consumer habits.
Chile shocked the world with images of its Atacama desert this past November. This landscape, one of the most remote spots in the world, is historically known for majestic volcanoes and salt flats. In these new images, however, those landscapes were transformed by 59,000 tons of clothes (worn and unworn) that had formed mountains atop the desert plateaus.
These photos surfaced as the world gathered for the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 and drove home a jarring reality about the clothing industry: we’re making more and wearing less. In fact, the…
