Most Your Clothes Are Designed For Garbage Dumps

Clothing companies such as H&M and Zara, where most of us get our clothing from, offer very cheap prices, but at the same time, their business model depends on consumers getting more clothes every year.

For this reason, the clothing they offer is pretty much designed to fall apart... and this starts happening even after one wash. Stores such as H&M produce hundreds of millions of clothing each year! Meanwhile the average American disposes 68 pounds of clothing and textile each year, according to the EPA Office of Solid Waste.

Most of these get dumped at landfill sites, the oldest form of waste treatment, and due to the petroleum-based fibers in clothes, they take decades to decompose.