#PlasticInTheNews Fast Fashion Edition 🗞️
'Fast Fashion' is a design, manufacturing, and marketing method focused on rapidly producing high volumes of clothing, which leverages the use of low-quality materials such as synthetic fibers.
And what do synthetic fibers do? Release microplastic.
Researchers estimate more than 50 billion garments are discarded within a year of being made. So. not only does the entire garment become waste, but the plastic fibers that are released when washing the garment make up between 20% and 35% of the microplastic choking the oceans.
Read more about the fast fashion industry and its effects on the ocean at the link in our bio.