Fast fashion is taking the fashion industry by storm with cheap prices and staying up to date with the latest trends. It picks up trends and current styles that celebrities are wearing and puts them on the market at a way lower price.

Each week thousands of styles are created and implemented in stores for consumers and always ready to cycle out as the trends pass. These stores encourage the throwaway culture by creating clothes with cheaper material and have someone itching to buy the newest and latest clothes as the old items are not in season or good to last more than three times through the wash. This throwaway culture brings most individuals to feed landfills with unwanted clothing items.

Fashion is responsible for 92 million tons of solid waste dumped in landfills each year. Every second, the equivalent of an entire garbage truck of textiles is sent to landfill or burnt.

Commonly, companies do not have regulations for their employees and workers are unpaid, poorly fed and work long hours each day. Exposure to harsh chemicals is another issue. Not only are workers exposed to chemicals such as lead and toxin dyes, these go into water streams as well.