"Fast Fashion"

In this era of “fast fashion,” clothing makers are constantly turning out new styles at low costs and dizzying rates. This high-paced production is detrimental to both human health and the planet. Toxic fabrics now permeate the fashion industry, winding up in our closets, on our bodies, and in our landfills.

The clothing material also affected the health or life of pregnant women and babies.

Current Workshop Situation

Worker Health

Workers in textile factories have to use toxic chemicals, often with no protective gear whatsoever, which leads to the textile industry, having one of the highest rates of occupational illness.

For example, they have to treat waterproof jackets with highly fluorinated compounds, which increases the risk of neurological and endocrine conditions.

To achieve that popular “acid wash” or distressed effect on jeans, workers have to dip their hands in a harmful agent, causing rashes and other severe skin conditions. In India, an investigation found that factories supplying clothes for popular fast fashion retailers were leaking toxic chemicals into rivers. As a result, there was a massive spike in cancer, tuberculosis, and congenital disabilities in villagers in the area.

That’s a factory where people work hard labor, under very poor working conditions, inadequate hours, and severe health risks.

Not paying fair living wages