We all like cheap clothes, but they can come at a huge price, not only to our environment but also the people who make them.



Textiles make up four percent of the waste in New Zealand landfills, according to the Ministry for the Environment. That's more than glass which makes up 2.5 percent and nappies and sanitary products which make up 2.7 percent.

Not only are they clogging up landfills, but according to the United Nations, the textile industry contributes around 10 percent of global C02 emissions - that's more than aviation and shipping combined.

When it comes to wastewater pollution, clothing production contributes a whopping 20 percent worldwide.

Globally, people bought on average 60 percent more clothing in 2014 than they did in 2000, but they kept it for half as long, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

This love for new clothes means one garbage truck of clothing is burned or sent to landfill every second.