{"id":19,"date":"2022-11-24T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.blazethemes.com\/newsmatic-pro-one\/?p=19"},"modified":"2023-05-13T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T21:42:53","slug":"how-fashion-insiders-are-dressing-for-new-york-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/24\/how-fashion-insiders-are-dressing-for-new-york-fashion-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The environmental costs of fast fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is spearheading an initiative towards a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/speech\/changing-game-zero-waste-climate-action\">zero waste world<\/a>. As part of this ambitious outlook, UNEP has partnered with Kenyan spoken word poet Beatrice Kariuki to shed light on high-impact sectors where consumers can make a real difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/fashions-tiny-hidden-secret\">Plastic fibres<\/a>&nbsp;are polluting the oceans, the wastewater, toxic dyes, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/global\/industries-and-sectors\/textiles-clothing-leather-footwear\/lang--en\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exploitation of underpaid workers<\/a>. Fast fashion is big business, and while the environmental costs are rising, experts say there is another way: a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ellenmacarthurfoundation.org\/a-new-textiles-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">circular economy for textiles<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fast fashion business model of quick turnover, high volume, cheap prices is under pressure from consumers who are demanding change. They want resilient garments from a sustainable industry, a goal supported by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/un-alliance-sustainable-fashion-addresses-damage-fast-fashion\">UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prominent example of how the garment industry can embrace the principles of a circular economy is the US outdoor clothing brand Patagonia, winner of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/us-outdoor-clothing-brand-patagonia-wins-un-champions-earth-award\">UN Champion of the Earth<\/a>&nbsp;award in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environmental costs of fast fashion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldofstartups.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}