Environmental waste generation
Fast fashion comes with an unavoidable cost sustainability in form of high waste generation & landfill discards, over production & overstocks by many textiles & fashion brands, including high return rate or packaging material waste etc.
The impact is roughly 92 million tonnes a year , with about carbon footprint of 20-30 Kg Carbon dioxide (Co2 per garment) & high usage of water per garment ( due to high batch dyeing process)
Ethical Production concerns in Fast Fashion
Fast fashion is known for few characteristics such as variety, trend, speed, usually priced in competitive manner with cut throat competition & labour intensive segment;This seeds often less than sufficient working & living condition.
Globally about 75million+ garment workers globally earn less than 2% decent living wage. 100 million+ children worldwide are impacted by forced & untimely labour woth many fast fashion supply chains.
data transparency non-existent due to non-digital nature of the sector ( except selling points).