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How Fast Fashion Contributes to Pollution
Fast fashion’s rapid production and disposal of cheap clothing significantly contribute to pollution. This industry’s high resource consumption generates waste and harmful emissions throughout the supply chain, including excessive water and chemical use, microplastic release during washing, and the creation of massive amounts of textile waste. This article will explore how fast fashion contributes to…
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Textile Dyeing and Chemical Pollution in the Fashion Industry
The fashion industry is a major global contributor to environmental pollution. From the production of raw materials to manufacturing and dyeing processes, it is estimated that 20% of industrial water pollution worldwide comes from textile dyeing alone. The use of toxic chemicals in these processes harms the environment and negatively impacts public health. There is…
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The Solution to Pollution Is Dilution: Is There Still Truth to This?
Many of us have heard the phrase “the solution to pollution is dilution.” But what does this really mean? Can it be applied to solving the large pollution issues we face globally today? This article will walk you through what the phrase means, where it comes from, and most importantly, whether dilution is really the…
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Water Quality Standards
Clean water is important to ensure healthy drinking water, healthy crops, and healthy ecosystems. However, runoff from industry and agriculture can pollute waterways and make for unsafe drinking water containing harmful chemicals and pathogens. Water quality standards are an important tool to assess and compare water to control pollutants. In this article, we’ll explain the…