The truth behind fast fashion
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Deadline: September 24
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Julia Ciesiołkiewicz
The speaker tells us that usually, people buy new clothes, wear them once, and then put them away in the wardrobe. These clothes stay here until their owner won’t buy themself something new, and won’t need a place in the wardrobe. Clothes that were worn once, almost not used go to recycling bins. Some brands have them. Brands like H&M, Zara, C&A, or different. They say that this clothing will go to recycle, that new clothes will be made of the old ones. But they don’t talk fully about the truth. Clothes that are supposed to get used again, are transported to eastern Europe, to countries like Poland, Bulgaria or Romania. That’s awful how many tons of trash go straight to our country. It's about 70 thousand tonnes! In Bulgaria, these clothes are usually used as fuel. For people who don't have money, it’s a great solution. Unfortunately - for our planet and environment it’s a poison. To avoid all these problems humans need to limit themselves in the amounts of clothing they buy and make. They need to be conscientious of their actions. Remember to take care of the Earth and know about the things you buy!
Zuzia 1F
Aleksandra 1F
Well, it's a business model which is basing on replicating current tredns and popular designs and then mass producing them at low cost. That allows to bring the clothes very quickly to the stores while people are most demanding them.
Alright, so some people may say: "What's wrong with that?" or "I don't see any problem in it". And sure, at the first glance you don't see any problem. Everyrhing is alright, everyone is happy with their new clothes. Well yes but that's until the new trend comes. Then people are buying new trendy clothes and theese that are trendy no more are thrown away. And that's a massive problem becasue you see, they were produced really fast and cheap so the quality of the material isn't good. And that means you can't really recycle them or make new clothes out of them. So the only solution is to burn them. But that also isn't a good idea beacuse that emits alot of toxic substances. Also not only utylising them pollutes the air, producing them does aswell. And the worst part about it is the fact that the trends ( as the name says ) are very fast so most of the clothes are weared only once before someone doesn't want do wear it anymore. Some people didn't even took the price tag off. So we are heavily polluting the air only for someone to look "trendy" for a day. So that's why the Fast fashion is bad and we should stop it.
Szymon Manias 1F
We learn that trends are set mostly by people in social media. When people scroll through Instagram they see the same trending clothes over and over again. They decide to buy them and some of them are not even worn once by them. This is the problem.We see that people are atracted to always have something new to wear. People buy much more clothes then needed so the industries are producing more of them. This equals in many clothes thrown away. In the film we even learn that statistically a new top is worn 1,7 times before it's discarded
But the problem is bigger. Few shops made a promise to recycle more of the clothes that didn't sell. They even got special bins in shops to collect used clothes but the truth is that we don't know what percantege of this clothes is actually getting recycled. Many of this cloths are made of synthetic materials. This mean that they can't be made into new clothes.
What happens to them if they can't be made into new clothes? The answer is that they get send into countries like Poland or Bulgaria. They are special places where the clothes are segragated but they are also sold as a burning fuel to the poor population of this countries by rogue traders. This equals in polluting the air by significant percent. The amount of toxic substances that we release is huge. Even without the problem of burning the clothes there are huge mountains of clothes that got thrown away
So what can we do to help? Firstly we can buy used clothing and wear it for a longer period of time. Second of all we can limit the amount of bad quality clothes that we buy. Lastly we can look if the product that we are buying can be recycled or we can sell it as second hand clothes. This is not that easy as we get influenced by people around us to buy trending clothes. However if we want to help our planet we have to tell other people about the conceqences of buying so many not importants clothes and oteher things.
Antoni Babral kl 1F
Let's start with the question ,,What is the fast fashion?". The fast fashion is some kind of fashion industry. Companies of this industry create too many clothes just because they are on top (currently popular or fashionable). The problem is in the fact that trends are changing realy quickly and brands needs to change their whole collection to not lose position on the market.
On the film we see that trends are changing because of people influenced by social media. The biggest influence falls on teenagers who want to feel like they belong to the rest of the society. They are scrolling on Tiktok, Instagram or Twitter and when they see some type of outfits that repeats, they are buying it for themself. For real when they buy it, most of them will never wear it and just throw it away when the popular went for something totally diffrent. I think that many of us wont notice the problem in wasting so many clothes and it's really sad.
But this problem has a hidden agenda. Some brands tell us that clothes they can't sell are recycling and thay even had put special bins into their shops.
But did you know that many of their clothes were produced fast and cheap so material that they are made of is not so good? Conclusion is easy: they cannot be recycled.
So probably you are wondering what happend to clothes you can't use. Well, they are send to special places in other countries like Poland (67tones), Romania(18tones) or Bulgaria(14tones). These statystics are terrible, dont you think?
Now you should think about it ,,What can I do to stop fast fashion?"
At first do not buy everything that is trendy. You should define your own style by buying things for longer period not only to be like everyone.Think through every purchase.
If you are really submitting to influences or just like to changing style sometimes then using second hands is the smart idea for you.
I know its easy to say, hard to do but we should try. It will help our planet so much and I think its worth this.
Oliwia A. 1f
The brands used to create four of new collection in year, but now they have grown to 52 micro collections per year ! According to greenpeace study 40% of clothes is never worn. They lie in our closet even with the price tag on. Some of our clothes is worn once and then
it's placed in the closet and its never wear again. Most of trends are strating in social media like instagram. People see something new all the time and because of it they have a felling that they need something new to wear. We have to stop buying clothes that are trend at the momet, becuse in a secound something new gonna be a trend and we will want to buy it. It's better to buy soemthing we can wear all the time or normal, ordinary. So if we won't ened it the global wamring will get worse
Patrycja Kaczmarska 1F
Fashion changes faster and faster. In large companis like H&M or Zara
new small collections change every week! The same companis who sell mass quantites of clothes create special containers for returning used clothes, which will then be recycled. Unfortunately video show us , that clothes are not processed into news ones but thrown away, which is not in line with the promises made by the stores.
People from poor villages buying old clothes and use them for heating hause , becouse of what a lot of pollution gets to atmosphere. How we can stop wasting clothes and pollution our planet? We have to stop buying uncessary things and start thinking about what will really be usefull to us and say others to do the same. We can also make others aware of the dangers of buying and wasting unnecessary amounts of clothes. We must take care of our planet before its too late.
Julia Jaworska 1F
Fast fashion is providing consumers with fashionable clothes inspired by the latest trends quickly and at low prices. This is really problematic because fast fashion has a negative influence for humans and the natural environment. The industry is known for exploiting cheap labour. Workers in these countries are often paid extremely low salary and forced to work in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. The environmental impact of fast fashion includes the depletion of non-renewable sources, greenhouse gas emissions and the use of huge amounts of water and energy.
Brands have to change their entire collection because fashion changes really quickly. But what about fast fashion designers promises?
They made a promise to recycle more of the clothes they didn't sell, but many of this clothes are made, for example, of polyester. That's why them can't be made into new clothes. The clothes that aren't sold is going to be send to the other countries like Poland (67 tones), Romania(18 tones) or Bulgaria (14 tones).
Instead of buying clothes in stores like Zara, H&M or C&A, we should do it in second-hand stores. Shop sustainable fashion brands and wear clothes for a longer time.
This video shows us how harmful fast fashion is. If we want to help our planet, we should act.
Wiktoria M. 1F
The main problem in the video is that people buy too many clothes.
Then they wear them once a twice or even don't out a label off. Because of that there are a plenty of clothes in recycling been.
Brands at their shops make a contaier for unnessesary clothes. With this clothes they make new one but this is problem because it's hard to make new clothes from old ones because they are made with different fabric. Many shops use a part of recycling clothes so what happen with the rest.
The rest of clothes are sorted and send to Estern Europe. The better part of them land in second hand but the worse is use illegaly.
Poor people in Sofia buy cheap clothes because they can't afford fuel, winter there is very cold so they smoke everything they can.
In Sofia is the highest level of air pollution in Europe. It is caused by cars, factories and smoked clothes. Because of the bad air condition many people have respiratory or lung infections.
Hanna Bilant
Natalia Bernasiak 1F
From two fans of Fast Fashion we could conclude that they often buy clothes online (because it accelerates the process) and without need. Buying a large amount of clothes is promoted by social media that set new trends. People buy tone clothes that ultimately finish the unread.
A lot of brands offer recycling, but it is only a marketing gimmick. Industries make false appearances, recycling clothing in clothing rarely happens.
Remains of used clothing often ends as fuel in household balances. It is bought by people who cannot afford a good heating. It is cheaper for them to buy remains of material.
Fast Fashion is another cause of air pollution. Sofia is a city that has the biggest problem with it. We learned that the clothes have artificial plastics, which causes a lot of volatile organic compounds. Pollution causes infections of the oath roads, increased pressure, more strokes.
To sum up, I think that we should buy more and more often at Second Hand. The clothes are more ecological and more original. Maja Wieczorek 1F
Lets starts with what actually fast fashion is?
Fast fashion involves producing mass amount of cheap clothes in short time. Fast fashion shops such as Zara, Bershka ,H&M and other like that produce clothes that are currently fashionable , but when the new trends are comming they have to change the colections to stay on the market . There used to be only 4 collections a year, now it has changed into a micro-collections that are released every week wich means that 52 collections are produced a year.
We produce much more chlothes than we need , 120 miliards of clothing are produced a year and 40% are never worn. The clothest that we throw away end up in countries like : poland(67 tone), bulgaria (14 tone),rumunia(18 tone). Clothes that are exported to Bulgaria are bought by the poorer people of Bulgaria and are used by them as a burning fuel wich is very toxic and couse polution . To sum up i think that we should significantly reduce the production of clothes and pay more atenttion to what we buy . A good substitute for fast fashions stores are second hand stores , where you can find used chlothes in a good condition , while no new clothes are produced .
Hanna.K 1F
Then they are visiting two girls and ask them where they know what is the new trend ,the anser was obviously from internet. In these days people know everything from internet, sometimes it’s good but not always. They’re showing that in the stores used-to-be four colections per year but in these days there are as many as fiffty two micro colection per year.
They visited those two girls again ,Elena (one of the girls) bought new clothes but she doesn’t have any room for them, like most of people in these days. In her wardrobe there are clothes that have prise tag on them. The popular brand H&M now offers returns of used clothing witch are recycled , but the tags on clothing are not always telling the truth. It hardly ever happend to recycled cloth from cloth .Most of a time when it says that its recycled it is but from plastic botels or plastic materials not from fabric.
The main reporters are visiting sophia where they find out that there are people that are using textails like a fiul for heating.
Second hand is being more and more popular ist good because insted of trowing clothes away we give them second live , as a result we’re saving our planet and money.
Natalia J. 1F
Many fashion brands are criticized for exploiting cheap lebor in developing countries, where workers endure long hours and dissmal conditions. This exploitation allows companies to keep costs low and profits high, all while concealing the truth from consumers.
Additionally, fast fashion often relies on the overproduction of clothing, leading to many amounts of waste. But, do sellers communicate these issues transsparently with their customers?
In conclusion, the truth behind fast fashion raises important questions about the honesty of fashion retailers. As consumers, it's our responsibility to be informed and to make choices that align with our values, ultimately influencing the industry's practices. By doing so, we can work towards a fashion world that not only looks good but also does good for workers and the planet.
Eryk Smęda 1F