The fast fashion is spreading its influence worldwide due to the vain promise of cheap and trendy products, accessible to everyone without particularly stringent backdraws. The main concerns afford several points from the enviroment to the ethic sphere.
Firsly, the over-production of not affordable clothes inducts the system to not rely on rycling or re-use, thus increasing pollution and the emissions of dangerous materials in the environment. Furthermore, many companies has been accused of exploiting poor manifacturing, sometimes obliging people to work for few money. This is the reason why many companies relocate abroad where manufactoring is cheaper, in disavantage of rights and safety on work places. In addition, this phenomenon surged because of social media widespread. Nowadays self-styled influencers promote wearing products not even knowing which material they are made of.
As a initial solution we should rely on only affordable companies which invest in reducing their impact on the environment and produce solid clothes that does not require to be replaced every week, due to their poor quality. In addition, we should learn the importance of recycling clothes we don’t use anymore. There are a lot of philatropic foundations that works thanks to people’s donations of clothes. In conclusion, we should boycott clothing chains that openly violate the rights of the environement and the workers.