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Fossil Fashion: 6 Reports On Fast-Fashion and Fossil Fuels

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Advocacy, Chemical Recycling, Climate Change, False Solutions, Fossil Fuel, Greenwashing, Lifecycle, Material, Plastic Disposal, Plastic Industry, Plastic Policy, Plastic Pollution, Plastic Production, Policy, Pollutants, Recycling, Waste

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The Changing Markets Foundation has published 6 reports that together reveal the interconnections between fast-fashion, fossil fuels, plastics, injustice, and pollution. The reports include:

  • Synthetics Anonymous 2.0: Fashion’s persistent plastic problem (December 2022)
  • Dressed to Kill: Fashion brands’ hidden links to Russian oil in a time of war (November 2022)
  • Licence to Greenwash: How certification schemes and voluntary initiatives are fuelling fossil fashion (March 2022)
  • A New Look for the Fashion Industry: EU Textile Strategy and the Crucial Role of Extended Producer Responsibility (March 2022)
  • Synthetics Anonymous: fashion brands’ addiction to fossil fuels (June 2021)
  • Fossil fashion: the hidden reliance of fast fashion on fossil fuels (February 2022)
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