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Fast Fashion's Waste Crisis
- Fast fashion causes 15 million tonnes of unusable clothes to be dumped in Ghana weekly.
- Low-quality clothing overwhelms local recycling infrastructure, leading to massive waste problems.
Fast Fashion's Scarcity Model
- Fast fashion turns over thousands of designs rapidly with sparse production to create artificial scarcity.
- This model fuels constant demand but contributes heavily to environmental waste.
Zara Founder Avoids Zara Fashion
- Emancio Ortega, founder of Zara, is extremely private and reportedly wears the same outfit daily.
- Despite founding a fashion empire, he avoids Zara's clothing in his personal attire.