In recent years, the fast fashion industry has emerged as one of the most polluting worldwide, contributing between 4 and 10 per cent of global CO2 emissions along its value chains, and generating wide environmental and social negative impacts, including microplastic release, water pollution, and unsafe working conditions. The Hot or Cool Institute and the independent think tank Demos Helsinki gathered some of the actors and stakeholders at the forefront of research and policy design for addressing fast fashion in a series of two workshops that took place in 2021.
This policy brief was submitted to the Public Consultation for the EU Strategy for Sustainable Textiles.
