Making Ethical, Sustainable Clothing Choices

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Fast fashion takes a toll on the environment and on workers. Here's how you can shop more sustainably and build a closet with a better impact.

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0:00.0	What's as American as apple pie, blue jeans,
0:03.7	and the way they fit, how you wear them,
0:05.8	what you pair them with, they're all uniquely you.
0:09.0	But the journey in the life of those jeans,
0:11.0	before and after they're on your body,
0:13.2	is a trip repeated billions of times each year.
0:17.9	This is NPR's life kid, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:20.3	The lifespan of a pair of jeans
0:21.9	repeats billions of times because some five to six billion pairs
0:25.5	are manufactured in the world each year.
0:28.3	And honestly, I think that that estimate
0:30.1	is probably a little bit low.
0:31.8	Author Elizabeth Klein who writes books
0:33.8	about the fashion industry and its labor practices
0:36.5	weaves us through.
0:37.6	They start out as cotton on a cotton form.
0:40.7	They eventually get spun into fiber,
0:43.3	sewn into clothing.
0:45.5	And then they end up in a retailer.
0:48.0	Then we order the jeans online from say the gap
0:50.6	or made well, a place that sells jeans.
0:53.4	That pair of jeans comes home to our closets, but...
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