Fast fashion is one of the world’s biggest contributors to climate change and our Christmas jumpers are fuelling a global eco disaster
Many of us will rock our Christmas jumpers for much of December, and these days, you can even get matching jumpers for the whole family – pets and all, making them our favourite festive fashion.
Fast fashion is a major, global problem and has been proven to be a major contributor to climate change and wasteful use of natural resources. In fact, according to Oxfam Ireland, us Irish dump 225,000 tonnes of clothing every year, and recent research by environmental charity Hubbub showed that Christmas jumpers were one of the worst examples of fast fashion.over the festive period before being discarded. And yet they are still bought in their millions each year.
The majority of the jumpers tested were made from acrylic – a popular plastic fibre used frequently in fast fashion.
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