Textile mills in and around Dhaka may consume as much groundwater as is supplied to the entire megacity of over 12 million inhabitants.
On average, clothing in the UK lasts for 3.3 years before it is discarded or passed on.
The US exported more than 1.68 billion pounds of used clothes valued at more than $681 million.
In the US the recycling rate for textiles in clothing and footwear is 13.6 percent.
In the US, the main source of textiles in municipal solid waste (MSW) is discarded clothing.
US MSW landfills received 11.2 million tons of textiles in 2017. This was 8 percent of all MSW landfilled.
In 2017, the last year for which the EPA has data, the US landfilled or burned 14.32 million tons of textile waste - or about 88 pounds per person.
4 percent of global waste is from the fashion industry.
90% of Mongolia is at risk of becoming a desert.
Zara releases 20,000 new designs a year.
43 percent of suppliers in a Better Buying report reported experiencing “high pressure” negotiating strategies from buyers about lowering their prices.
China is quickly becoming one of the world’s top apparel importers. From 2010 to 2016, China’s apparel imports enjoyed an annual 17 percent growth, much higher than most other countries.
The European Union, the United States, and Japan remained the top three importers of apparel in 2016.
China’s shares in the world textile exports dropped from 37.4 percent in 2015 to 37.2 percent in 2016.
China remains the leading garment exporter with $158B, Bangladesh is second with $29.3B.
Measured in value, China, European Union, and India remained the top three exporters of textiles in 2016.
One study estimates that 878 tonnes of plastic microfibers are released from Canadian and U.S. household laundry through wastewater treatment plants every year.
As much as 0.19 million tonnes of microfibers from the production and normal use of synthetic textiles, particularly domestic laundry of clothing...
In a small survey of garment workers in Ethiopia wages averaged $2/day.
The minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh as of December 2018 was 8,000 takka (approx. $95) a month.
