10 stunning statistics you need to know about quick fashion

Fast fashion; low price and high speed running production model. But the effects of this system on the environment and society are becoming more visible when the numbers are cleared.

1. Fashion sector is responsible for about 10 percent of global carbon emissions. This rate is higher than the total release of international flights and sea transportation.
[[T]]] 2. Fashion industry is the second largest water consumer among industries. For a single cotton t-shirt production, about 700 gallons are used about 2000 gallons of water. [
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3. Approximately 85% of textile products produced annually are sent to garbage or burned. The large part of these waste is not recycled.
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] 4. Textile dyeing and apre processes are considered the second largest water pollutants activity worldwide. After painting, the resulting waste waters are left to nature without being purified in most regions.

5. With the washing of synthetic fabrics, about 500 thousand tons of microfiber are mixed into the oceans. This amount comes to about 50 billion plastic bottles.

6. Approximately 35 percent of microplastics in the oceans are caused by synthetic textiles such as polyester. [

7. In the last 20 years, the consumption of clothes on the global scale increased by about 400 percent. Every year around 80 billion new clothes are produced.

8. Some quick fashion brands can carry a product from design to store within 10–15 days. This speed normalizes over-production and short-use life.

9. About 80 percent of global garment production is made by young women aged 18–24. In many manufacturers, cases of child labour and forced operation are documented.

] 10. In 2013, Rana Plaza lost 1134 textile workers life in the facia in Bangladesh. This event was seen on the global scale of the social cost of fast fashion.
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All this data shows that fast fashion is not only a choice of consumption; water safety, climate crisis, biodiversity loss and a system directly associated with social justice.