Information for Women: The High Price Of Cheap Clothes

What are we doing to the Environment?

Each year, an estimated 80 billion garments are sold worldwide, and each year, Americans alone throw away 15 million tons of clothing — most of it having been worn just a few times
The “disposable clothing” trend completely disregards the toxic toll each garment takes on environmental and human health throughout the manufacturing and distribution processes involved in its creation
Leather tanning is a chemical-heavy process typically relegated to impoverished developing nations that lack toxic waste management regulations
The Buriganga River in Bangladesh has turned black from the toxins released from the Dhaka tannery district, as has the local river in Xintang, China, thanks to the denim industry, which dumps untreated dye water into it
In Pakistan, the fourth-largest cotton producer in the world, the cotton industry has polluted much of the groundwater, rendering it unsafe to drink