eco-friendly fashion – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:01:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 https://i2.wp.com/plumjoyful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-favorite.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 eco-friendly fashion – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com 32 32 101224769 Conscious fashion brands I’m obsessed with https://plumjoyful.com/conscious-fashion-brands-im-obsessed-with/ Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:00:21 +0000 http://plumjoyful.com/?p=1001 I love H&M and Zara as much as the next girl, but the truth is “fast fashion” brands like these are harming our health and our world. The business model of these fast fashion brands is to deliver on trend fashion at a very low price to consumers. What results is a low quality product (albeit one that looks great), that is affordable in the short run, but has been designed to fall apart quickly in order to be replaced by the next trendy garment. Zara develops a new line every two weeks and produces 850 million garment pieces every year. The cheap price point of these garments make them disposable and they are clogging up our landfills. In general, 80 billion pieces of clothing are manufactured each year. 3 out of 4 of these garments will end up in a landfill or incinerated. Only one quarter will be recycled. What’s worse is that these cheap garments are made with extremely hazardous chemicals that pollute our air and waterways during the manufacturing process. Not to mention you are placing these chemicals directly on your skin! And lest you think I’m being an alarmist, here is a STUDY done by Greenpeace that details the […]

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