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

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Fast Fashion and Its Effects on the Economy

Between the year 2000 to 2015, worldwide clothing production doubled. For every five new t-shirts made a year, three are tossed in the trash. In 2016, that's when social media started to really take off. And this was a whole new world, an era of fast fashion begins.

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