We do not often think about the impact that our clothing has on the world around us.

But fashion is estimated to produce up to 10% of humanity's carbon emissions.

It dries up water sources.

Pollution is put directly into fresh streams and ends up all over the world. This

pollutes our rivers, our plutes our streams, pollutes our oceans. And get this, more than 85%

of the textiles that are created each year go directly into the dump.

They don't get purchased, they don't get recycled, they don't get used.

What we also find is that some types of clothing, when you wash them,

sends thousands of bits of microscopic plastic into the ocean that can never be retrieved.

Furthermore, there's major human rights violations throughout the entire manufacturer of clothing,

from people being enslaved to pick cotton, to people being forced to work in extraordinarily

unsafe conditions we even have seen factories collapse and kill more than a thousand people

in one day we also know that when we take a greater look at our clothing, we see that it's often sprayed with

toxic chemicals that can be absorbed across the surface of our skin. So it's not just about the

environment. It's not about human rights violations. It is about our own

health and the health of our families and our children as well. In today's episode, I'm first talking

with fashion designer Fulia Turkmeniglu, who started a company where she produces medical devices that are not

only fashionable and that you would actually want to wear out in public, but is also sustainable,

honors the workers and the laborers that go into the production of our clothing.

After that, I have a fascinating conversation with Carrie Summers.

She is the founder of Fashion Revolution, the world's premier advocacy group for transparency in our clothing production.

She just returned from sailing around the globe,

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