Although fast fashion has become attractive among people, it has created many invironmental and social problems. This essay discusses the negative effects of fast fashion and a number of measures that can be taken to promote sustainable and ethical fashion practices.
The growing popularity of fast fashion has led companies to produce large volume of fashion items, resulting more chemicals used, carbon emission, and water pollution. Moreover, discarding the old fashion items on landfills degrades soils, while wasting resources. In order to make the fashion items available at a cheaper price, some companies outsource to factories, where employees work at minimum wages, often in hazardous conditions. This immoral practice break human rights. Since, people by fashion items frequently it creates pressure on making more money to spend on fashion items, ignoring necessities and savings. This results in increasing debth and reducing mental wellbeing.
There are some measures to be taken in order to solve these problems. Governments should implement stricter regulation on environmental conditions and labor rights. Implementing ethical business practices, proper waste management systems, while engaging more on corporate social responsibilities may make businesses less harmful towards the environment. People may become responsible consumer through reduction on buying fashion items frequently, supporting companies practicing ethics and morality. Awareness programs and second-hand market may make people more aware to this problem, while selling their unnecessary fashion items to someone who needs. Resulting less resource waste and waste production.
In conclusion, while fast fashion creates several problems, if governments, people and businesses join hands and work together, it is possible to bring sustainability and ethical fashion practice.