The fashion industry is a major source of the greenhouse gases that are overheating the planet.
Discarded clothes are also piling up in landfill sites. and fibre fragments are flowing into the sea when clothes are washed.
- British shoppers buy far more new clothes than any nation in Europe
- People are buying twice as many items of clothing as they did a decade ago
- Fish in the seas are eating synthetic fibres dislodged in the wash
"Three in five garments end in landfill or incinerators within a year - that's expensive fuel! Half a million tonnes of microfibres a year enter the ocean. Doing nothing is not an option." The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee chairwoman Mary Creagh told BBC News.
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