Sustainable Fashion Infographic

Slow Down Fast Fashion

Sustainable brands are creating fashion that's healthy for people and planet!

Style Alternatives that are Good for the Earth

Sunglasses: 95% of plastic is used only once but takes 400+ years to decompose. Sunglass frames can be made of 100% recycled post consumer waste
Jeans: 900 gallons of water is used to make a pair of jeans, but re-purposed denim uses zero
Cotton: One quarter of the world’s pesticides are used in cotton fields, but 81% fewer agrochemicals & 49% less water are used to farm organic cotton.
Dyes: 17-20% of industrial water pollution comes from synthetic textile dyes, natural dyes from plants have been used throughout human history

A 2008 study from Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon shows that shopping creates a tug-of-war between the pleasure of buying & the pain of paying.

Fast fashion thrives on low quality products, cheap and speedy trends create consumer tension

Outsourced production = more clothes for less $

New products are released multiple times a week

Creates a “throw away” consumer mentality in order to stay on trend

Fashion is the 2nd highest polluting industry in the world behind oil

82 lbs of textile waste are produced per person in the US, that’s 11 million lbs a year!
80 billion new pieces of clothing are purchased worldwide, 400%+ than 2 decades ago!
Only 10% of clothing donated to thrift stores is sold, leftovers are thrown away or sold to flood markets in developing countries
2014: Average US household spent $1,786 on apparel & accessories = $250 billion total

Glasses Lead the Way in Eco Enterprise

Bamboo: Bamboo glasses provide a sustainable, high quality natural product. Bamboo is earth’s fastest growing plant (1-5 ft. of growth a year) and its more durable than untempered steel. It's also naturally anti-fungal & anti-bacterial.
Reclaimed Wood: “Twice recycled” sunglasses can re-use wood that has been reclaimed previously. 50% of wood reclaimed for renovation projects gets discarded in the manufacturing process. Wood grain allows for personal pieces that stand out as works of art
Sea Plastic: Glasses can be made from recovered & recycled high-density polyethylene ocean plastics. 8 million metric tons of plastic is dumped into the ocean every year. 10% of the ocean’s plastic debris comes from discarded fishing nets. Recycled nets can be sourced from fishing ports before entering the Ocean ecosystem