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Our goal is to make environmental news within the fashion industry more accessible. To empower minds with knowledge that encourages consumers to act towards a sustainable future.
PFAS
Poly and Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances
Your Health & Trumps Plans
Hazardous chemicals are one of the most serious environmental problems, we face today, with far-reaching and unpredictable consequences for human health, animals and nature. They cause a wide range of diseases and health problems, from cancer to infertility.
Today we are focusing on PFAS: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, the short name “forever Chemicals”. The carbon-fluorine ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
bond is very strong making them resist to chemical attack, and able to withstand high temperature. Created in 1939 by Dupont, remember Teflon. Fluoropolymer coating are in waterproof fabrics, your nylons and polyesters, household products, carpets, and other furnishing, cosmetics like nail polish, mascara and lipsticks. Personal care product, shampoos and feminine hygiene products. All products that are resist to heat, oil, stains, grease and water.
With The Trump administration cutting regulation.
Can we be assured that traded products from the US are
PFAS FREE.
Life Is Water
Recycled Plastic Clothing
Plastic “recycling” is a false solution to plastic pollution. How do we know this? Ask yourself why, despite this major push for recycling plastic, plastic pollution and its toxic impacts continue to grow.
Plastic recycling as it is today harmful and cannot be considered “circular,” because plastic recycling processes continue to drive plastic pollution and its dangerous toxic impacts. For more....
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Africa: A Dumping Ground
Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion. The disturbing pictures taken in the Ghana, show huge piles of sodden garments strewn over the sand. Many of the items are thought to have been imported from the US and other countries from around the world.
Today Ghana, like other African countries are frighting back.