Blog Post #5 - Unit 7 (Ensuring a Sustainable Future)

Ensuring a Sustainable Future

Now, there are a variety of garments in the world. As time goes by, fashion is becoming more diverse. Generally, we can choose and wear what we want among numerous clothes. But, everything is not fine because fashion don’t bring us only merit. Fast fashion which was a main trend in the world of fashion had made a meteoric rise because of a cheap price and a design reflecting the latest fashion in Europe. However, there exist a lot of environmental problems in producing many goods inexpensively and rapidly. As a result, it is important that we need to avoid buying clothes of fast fashion company for sustainable future.

Most of the fast fashion industries deteriorate a waste of resources and environmental pollution in the world. In the process of production, they uses excessive energy and expels much quantity of carbon. Also, many leftover pieces of produced clothes are abandoned as garbage. In addition, we throw out this kind of clothes more easily. It is because we tend to recognize them as a disposable thing and don’t wear them for a longtime on account of the bad quality. Almost the whole clothes of fast fashion are not decomposed as they are made by petrochemical materials causing global warming. And 25% of usage of agricultural pesticides in the world are used for growing cotton that is one of the main material of fast fashion. Harmful substances from these processes threaten the environment.

And it is better that we don’t purchase them because they have a bad effect on our health. Chemicals that is not good for health are added for the cheap price and small quantity batch production. The manufacturers can’t use a fabric that is good for our health because it costs too much then they can’t reduce costs. Besides, some people actually get healthy problems like skin disease and headache. Mostly of them are produced in Southeast Asian nations due to the cheap workforce. Surely, the factory is not managed in a sanitary way for the workers and clothes.

We can help to make a sustainable future by not purchasing clothes from fast fashion brand because it reduces a waste of resources and better for our health. A contrary concept of fast fashion, which is called ‘Slow Fashion’, recently takes center stage. How about trying to put on slow fashion for our Earth and body from now on?