We all need clothes, definitely so. But there was a time when textiles weren't such a quickly throw away product. They were durable and usually they were redesigned, if possible, for someone else or some other use. And people didn't have so many clothes. Nowadays, clothing and textiles is considered second largest polluter to oil industry according to Eileen Fischer. Manfred Santen, a leading chemist at Greenpeace, of whom many CEOs are afraid, explains that the clothing is detrimental to our health due to chemicals by which the textiles are treated with. It's somehow like Catch 22, if people don't buy clothes the people producing them go out of business and become jobless. While, in the meantime this cheap clothing craze causes a heap of landfills. Textiles are also recycled into textiles for industry and other purposes, yet this doesn't stop the creation of enormous heap of toxic waste. Sure, the textiles are sold as second hand clothes as a way of recycling, but in Africa it wiped out 30,000 workplaces, and there are other places where it happened, too. A report from University of Cambridge from 2006 stated that Brits now buy averagely 35 kg of textile per person yearly, 4 kg is then donated and 31 kg is being thrown away. I doubt it is really any different elsewhere. Is this ever solvable then?
