What Do We Know?
Have you ever thought about what happens to clothes that wear out as a result of constantly changing fashion styles? So how many resources are used for these constantly produced clothes? Even though there is so much excess, why do we encounter people around us who have no clothes to wear? Let’s take a look at these.
The textile industry is one of the largest and most important industries in the world in terms of production and workforce. Because it meets the most essential need of 8 billion people in the world, namely the need to wear clothes. However, this sector is also one of the sectors that harms nature the most. As if the resources we use when producing clothes and the waste generated were not enough, the waste generated after use combined creates a huge threat to our world. Sustainable fashion aims to prevent these and fast fashion.
What is Sustainable Fashion?
Sustainable fashion is a fashion trend that has developed against the fast fashion approach in the fashion industry and aims to change fashion products and systems by defending ecological integrity and social justice. It is an approach that deals not only with the product but also with the social, cultural, ecological and financial systems to which fashion is linked. This movement also aims to raise people’s awareness and encourage environmentally friendly consumption.
Sustainable fashion
It aims to ensure that raw materials and resources are renewable and of natural origin, to reduce the use of chemicals, to establish a production system that does not create waste, to include recycling products in production, and to recycle the waste generated after use in production.
How can we support sustainable fashion by changing our consumption habits?
If the materials used in production are cheaper but will have a shorter lifespan, such as polyester, we may choose not to purchase it.
We may not prefer brands that release new collections every week and determine their sales prices based on the competition in the market, not on the labor involved in production.
We can choose environmentally friendly products by looking at the labels of our clothes.
We can support them by choosing textile brands that support slow fashion, which emerged against the fast fashion trend, and care about sustainability. The slow fashion movement aims to improve social responsibility, sustainability, transparency and other core business practices.
We classify the clothes we no longer use as usable or unusable; We should deliver the usable ones to those in need, and the unusable ones to recycling points.
In this way, we prevent the clothes we produce from being wasted and ensure that they are constantly recycled instead of accumulating as waste.
