{"id":5663,"date":"2019-10-01T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"why-you-should-stop-buying-new-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/01\/why-you-should-stop-buying-new-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Stop Buying New Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By The Conversation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fashion industry is one of the most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/putting-brakes-fast-fashion\">polluting industries<\/a>&nbsp;in\nthe world, producing 20% of global wastewater and 10% of global carbon\nemissions \u2013 and it\u2019s estimated that by 2050 this will have increased to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/environment\/fashion-industry-may-use-quarter-of-world-s-carbon-budget-by-2050-61183\">25%<\/a>. A\nstaggering&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governmenteuropa.eu\/fast-fashion-waste\/92213\/\">300,000<\/a>&nbsp;tonnes\nof clothes are sent to British landfills each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmatters.com\/p\/what-is-fast-fashion\">fast-fashion<\/a>\u00a0business model, first developed in the early\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edology.com\/blog\/fashion-media\/rise-of-fast-fashion\/\">2000s<\/a>\u00a0is responsible for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/econsultancy.com\/four-factors-fuelling-the-growth-of-fast-fashion-retailers\/\">increase in consumer demand<\/a>\u00a0for high quantities of low-quality clothing. Many fashion products now being designed and made specifically for short-term ownership and premature disposal. Clothing quality is decreasing along with costs, and the increased consumption levels of mass-manufactured fashion products are pushing up the consumption of natural resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pressure to facilitate consumer hunger imposes\nsignificant social and environmental pressures on the manufacturing supply\nchain. The UK\u2019s consumption levels of fashion are the highest in Europe,\nat&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/environmental-audit-committee\/news-parliament-2017\/fashion-bosses-reveal-environmental-record-17-19\/\">26.7kg per capita<\/a>.\nThis compares to a consumption rate of 16.7kg in Germany, 16kg in Denmark,\n14.5kg in Italy, 14kg in the Netherlands and 12.6kg in Sweden. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-you-should-stop-buying-new-clothes-123881\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Conversation The fashion industry is one of the most&nbsp;polluting industries&nbsp;in the world, producing 20% of global wastewater and 10% of global carbon emissions \u2013 and it\u2019s estimated that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}