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The document discusses the environmental impacts of fast fashion, noting that British people send 235 million items of clothing to landfill each year, fast fashion produces 400% more carbon emissions than clothes worn 50 times, and it takes 3,871 liters of water to produce one pair of jeans.

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Infographic Landscape Worksheet Answers

The document discusses the environmental impacts of fast fashion, noting that British people send 235 million items of clothing to landfill each year, fast fashion produces 400% more carbon emissions than clothes worn 50 times, and it takes 3,871 liters of water to produce one pair of jeans.

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We wear fast fashion Old clothes made from non-


items fewer than 5 British people send about biodegradable fabric take 200
times in total. 235 million items of clothing years to decompose.
to landfill sites each year.

99% of used clothing is


recyclable.
We keep fast fashion items for about
35 days before throwing them away.
The fashion industry produces
1.2 billion tonnes of carbon Factories around the world
emissions a year. use 8,000 chemicals to turn
Fast fashion produces 400% raw materials into textiles.
more carbon emissions than
clothes we wear 50 times.
3,871 litres of water
are used in the lifetime
About 60,000,000
People in the USA of one pair of jeans.
people work in the
buy 80 billion new global fashion industry.
items of clothing
each year.
In the UK they burn or send to
landfill 60 rubbish lorries of
In the past twenty years clothes every minute.
You need 2,700
clothes sales in the USA litres of water to
have grown by 400%. make one T-shirt.

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