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What fast fashion leads to
The spanish paper and online portal EL PAÍS just published a revealing investigation. They endowed used but still good clothes with hidden geolocation tags and deposited the clothes in 15 used clothes bins across Spain. Then they tracked the journeys of the different pieces. It's a long and abysmal story.
That story is wild. I knew clothes ended up as waste but the sheer scale of this is staggering.
@EverydayMoggie @PC_Fluesterer Not sure if it’s different in the US, but I was under the impression that the clothing was shredded to make insulation. 
Part of it, surely. But that amount of insulation that could be produced this way is several orders of magnitude above the need.
@Galley @EverydayMoggie @PC_Fluesterer that’s just one of the many ways in which these companies have lied to us about green washing. Reducing is still the best way, reuse and recycle is absolutely messed up globally. Almost all of it is going to the global south to landfills
@skinnylatte @Galley @EverydayMoggie @PC_Fluesterer The quality issue infuriates me. Clothes I bought two decades ago tend to be far more usable than those I bought a year ago. I don’t buy much, and living in a country area gives me much greater leeway for what’s acceptable for work, but when I need to replace something I’m having to buy them more often.
You can still get quality clothing that lasts, but it generally is not cheap. Buying it during a sale helps with that.