When you slip into your favorite tee-shirt, you probably don’t think about where it came from and at what cost. You just enjoy the soft fabric and the fun pattern.
But that comfy shirt required a third of a pound of chemicals and 700 gallons of water to produce and another 700 gallons of water to wash over its lifetime. The fashion industry as a whole accounts for more than five percent of global carbon emissions, second only to oil and gas. And the fashion marketplace operates inefficiently; more than 87 percent of clothing produced ends up incinerated or in a landfill.