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Up Boutique thrift store fights fast fashion Thursday 18 February 2021 Alana Ramlal, manager of Up Boutique at Queen s Park Oval, Port of Spain, shows some of the work clothes available at the boutique. PHOTOS BY AYANNA KINSALE - The fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world; the oil and energy industry is the first. The UN Environment Programme s 2018 article Putting the brakes on fast fashion, said: The fashion industry produces 20 per cent of global waste water and ten per cent of global carbon emissions. This waste is more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. Approximately 2,000 gallons of water is used to make a pair of jeans, making textile dyeing the second largest polluter of water. ....