Do you know which industry is the second biggest polluter? #fashion #pollution #education

3 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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The fashion industry is the second-largest global polluter after oil and gas, contaminating land, water, air, and people. Learning that most recycled items don't actually get recycled sparked a summer sustainability project in the creator's garage.

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And as someone who went to college being really passionate about sustainability and someone who was like rinsing out my milk carton to recycle it, to find out that most of what we put in the blue bin isn't actually recycled, that was like actually truly shocking to me. That like really stuck with me. And then at the same time, fashion, people were realizing how polluting it is as a global industry. It is the second largest polluting after oil and gas, which many people did not realize, but it is such an interconnected global industry that impacts our land, our water, our air, people. And so for me, it was those 2 issues that kind of led me to a summer working in my garage.