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75: That $7 Shirt Is Making You Sick: Fast Fashion vs. the World

Dark History

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How Much Water Do You Need to Supply Your City?

Fast fashion companies use toxic chemicals known as azo dyes to dye their clothing for those oh-so-sheek colors. Many fast fashion companies flush this toxic water out of their factories and they dump it into rivers and oceans. The water is so contaminated that some experts say that it cannot ever be considered safe again. Next up in the fast fashion waste department is the problem of micro plastics. These plastic sesame seed looking things are extremely bad for the ocean, all for the life in the ocean and even for us humans.

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