Out of fashion: a photo shoot in the heart of China’s textile industry, on the bank of Qiantang River, in Zhejiang province, shows the scale of the toxic water pollution that currently occurs in order to supply a global market with its fast-fashion fix. Picture: Lance Lee for Greenpeace Out of fashion: a photo shoot in the heart of China’s textile industry, on the bank of Qiantang River, in Zhejiang province, shows the scale of the toxic water pollution that currently occurs in order to supply a global market with its fast-fashion fix. Picture: Lance Lee for Greenpeace
Out of fashion: a photo shoot in the heart of China’s textile industry, on the bank of Qiantang River, in Zhejiang province, shows the scale of the toxic water pollution that currently occurs in order to supply a global market with its fast-fashion fix. Picture: Lance Lee for Greenpeace
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How a fast-fashion boycott could help save the world and stop clothes from clogging landfills

The fashion industry is a major contributor to climate change, transforming consumer behaviour is one way to combat it

Topic |   Fashion
Sofia Suarez
Sofia Suarez

Updated: 8:52am, 4 Jan, 2019

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Out of fashion: a photo shoot in the heart of China’s textile industry, on the bank of Qiantang River, in Zhejiang province, shows the scale of the toxic water pollution that currently occurs in order to supply a global market with its fast-fashion fix. Picture: Lance Lee for Greenpeace Out of fashion: a photo shoot in the heart of China’s textile industry, on the bank of Qiantang River, in Zhejiang province, shows the scale of the toxic water pollution that currently occurs in order to supply a global market with its fast-fashion fix. Picture: Lance Lee for Greenpeace
Out of fashion: a photo shoot in the heart of China’s textile industry, on the bank of Qiantang River, in Zhejiang province, shows the scale of the toxic water pollution that currently occurs in order to supply a global market with its fast-fashion fix. Picture: Lance Lee for Greenpeace
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