Fast Fashion in Numbers: The Impact that Fast Fashion has on our People and Planet

of clothes go to landfill every year [2016]

pieces of clothing consumed globally every year

garment workers in the world, many of which are without rights or protection. Around 85% of the world's garment workers are women.

barrels of oil are used annually to make polyester fibres

consumption per capita of new clothing in the UK, the highest of all European countries

worth of obsolete clothing was burned by H&M in 2017

Indian cotton farmers have committed suicide in the last 15 years due to the stressful debt caused by having to buy genetically modified cotton seeds

micro-seasons a year exist for many fast fashion companies, replacing the two traditional AW and SS seasons

of water is needed to make a single t-shirt (the same amount of water that the average person drinks over 900 days)

of plastic microfibres are estimated to enter the ocean between 2015 and 2050 based on current trends