H&M and Waste Colonialism: Polluting the World with “Dead White Men’s Clothes”
<p><strong>The fashion industry is responsible for </strong><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/sv/headlines/society/20201208STO93327/textilproduktionens-och-textilavfallets-inverkan-pa-miljon" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>10% of global carbon emissions</strong></a><strong>. This is more than all </strong><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/sv/headlines/priorities/klimatforandringar/20191129STO67756/utslapp-fran-flygplan-och-fartyg-fakta-och-siffror-grafik" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>international flights and shipping combined</strong></a><strong>. Yet, year after year, leading fast fashion chains fail to acknowledge and take responsibility for these statistics. H&M is currently the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer and one of many companies in the industry that are trying to curb their carbon footprint. The “</strong><a href="https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/sustainability-at-hm/our-work/close-the-loop.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Let’s close the loop</strong></a><strong>” initiative is an attempt by H&M to prevent clothes from ending up in landfills by encouraging consumers to hand in their old garments to their recycling boxes. H&M then promises to reuse or recycle all garments. However, recent investigations have revealed a contrasting and quite shocking reality…</strong></p>
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