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5<br />
Fast fashion facts<br />
• 2 billion pairs of jeans are produced globally every year. It take 7000<br />
litres of water to make just one pair (Source: Forbes magazine)<br />
• It takes 2700 litres of water to make just one machine-made cotton<br />
t-shirt (Source: bettercotton.org)<br />
• An estimated 400 billion square meters of textiles are produced<br />
annually, of which 60 billion square meters are left on the cutting<br />
room floor (Source: greenpeace.org)<br />
• Only a quarter of discarded garments gets recycled. The rest go to<br />
landfills, or are incinerated (Source: greenpeace.org)<br />
1.7 million tonnes of various chemicals are used<br />
annually around the world to dye/waterproof<br />
clothes. A lot of these chemicals leach into our<br />
rivers, harming wildlife Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain<br />
“Buy less,<br />
choose<br />
well, make<br />
it last”<br />
- Vivianne Westwood<br />
• Instead of splurging on<br />
a new garment you’re<br />
going to tire of in a month,<br />
arrange for clothes swap<br />
programmes with your<br />
friends. The perfect<br />
excuse to make a party of<br />
it. Youtube has plenty of<br />
“haulternative” videos to<br />
help you organise these.<br />
• Upcycling! Put your craft<br />
skills to use (or get your<br />
tailor involved) to turn old<br />
garments to new. Thus<br />
an old sari can be made<br />
into a new kameez, an old<br />
kameez into a new kurti,<br />
and so on and so forth<br />
• Look for eco-friendly<br />
options, such as clothes<br />
that use vegetable dye<br />
The rising popularity of fast fashion is forcing<br />
handloom weavers out of jobs Photo: Rajib Dhar<br />
WEEKEND TRIBUNE | FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017