If you’re looking to create a sustainable and eco-friendly wardrobe, then you’ll be happy to learn that being a conscious shopper doesn’t mean you have to compromise style. These days, more and more brands are pledging to reduce their footprint on the environment since fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world. And since sustainability is a trend with staying power that we can certainly get behind, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite eco-friendly clothing brands (six to be specific). Here, the best brands to shop if ethical fashion is as important to you as looking incredible.
3 Ways Fast Fashion Contributes To Climate Change
The ubiquity of fast-fashion has normalized impulse and occasion shopping but it isn’t just unproductive for building a quality, meaningful wardrobe—it’s also detrimental to our planet. Clothing is a necessity that each one of the seven billion people on earth interacts with, but fast-fashion specifically contributes to climate change and global warming in three major ways: it depletes our natural resources, pollutes our air with carbon emissions, and floods our landfills with textile waste. Let’s dive in a little deeper to better understand how fast fashion impacts our environment and join us on this journey to fight the global climate crisis.
Our Stance on Sustainability
On average, a single American throws away a whopping 70 pounds of clothing each year, and of those 15 million tons that get tossed out globally, only a measly 15% get recycled. That means that the other 85% of textiles that *don’t* make it to your used clothing store shelves, have enough heft to fill the Sydney Harbor annually. That’s...a lot of discarded ex-boyfriend t-shirts. At dressCODE, our goal is to minimize the environmental impacts of fashion consumption, once closet at a time.