Shoppers are ravenous for more: more clothes, more shoes, more bags, more things. Sensing their weakness and hungry for profits, the fast fashion industry will stop at nothing to keep up. And so, underpaid and often exploited workers churn out billions of tonnes of clothes, which are shipped from factories to warehouses to high street stores.
But people are fickle and fashion is fickler. Some items never make it beyond the stockroom before trends have moved on, while barely worn items hang at the back of dusty wardrobes. The worst case: clothes end up on landfill heaps, incinerated or shipped to developing countries.
The fashion industry
