KITX will plant a tree @carbonneutralau for every purchase made today but warning only buy what you love and love what you wear. Did you know approximately 1/3 of all the garments produced around the world never leave the shop floor. But where do they all end up? Globally, 87% of all disposed textiles are sent to landfill or incinerated; 12% is mechanically recycled by cutting it or shredding it into fibre, insulation material or rags; and less than 1% is chemically recycled back to reusable raw materials. The idea of buy, wear once and dispose is completely unsustainable.
One study from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation estimates that a truckload of textiles is wasted every second. In addition to requiring resources to make and process, and producing carbon emissions, the discarded material used in so-called “fast fashion” clothing often contains microfibers of plastic that eventually pollute the ocean.
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Statistics @natgeo @upparelofficial