i feel that if you are delivering an essential sort of.life safety, public safety piece of information, then you have a responsibility to be transparent about how it works and how well it works. we can t be sure that no one got this alert, but we can be sure that many people didn t. there was no blanket warning a warning that could have saved lives. now, we know that fast fashion isn t great for the planet, yet many stores still sell trendy cheap clothes that are here today and gone tomorrow. but there are ways to make this trillion dollar clothing industry more sustainable, as francesca hashemi has been finding out. millions of tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill every year, making the industry a major contributor of greenhouse gases and a massive consumer of a finite resource water.
great for the planet, yet many stores still sell trendy cheap clothes that are here today and gone tomorrow. but there are ways to make this trillion dollar clothing industry more sustainable, as francesca hashemi has been finding out. millions of tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill every year, making the industry a major contributor of greenhouse gases and a massive consumer of a finite resource water. fashion is the second most polluting industry after aviation and shipping. it accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, and it s very water intensive. from manufacturing textiles for cotton t shirts to washing or dry cleaning clothes, the industry relies heavily on h20. but some people are trying to change that. here at acs, we also use water, we re large laundry. we believe that, in the next 12 months, we will get to a stage
yet many stores still sell trendy cheap clothes that are here today and gone tomorrow. but there are ways to make this trillion dollar clothing industry more sustainable, as francesca hashemi has been finding out. millions of tonnes of clothes are sent to landfill every year, making the industry a major contributor of greenhouse gases and a massive consumer of a finite resource water. fashion is the second most polluting industry after aviation and shipping. it accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, and it s very water intensive. from manufacturing textiles for cotton t shirts to washing or dry cleaning clothes, the industry relies heavily on h20. but some people are trying to change that. here at acs, we also use water, we re large laundry. we believe that, in the next 12 months, we will get to a stage where we won t take any water from the mains.