Environmental impact of fashion

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Impact 45.4 · Consider · Confidence 75

• Removed a US-specific landfill statistic that previously claimed about 85% of US clothing ends up in landfills.
• Revised the global greenhouse gas share from a late-2010s figure (2.4%) to a 2023 figure (roughly 2%), changing the temporal context.

Replace “has led to around 100 billion items of clothing being consumed annually with about 85 of clothes consumed in United States being sent to landfill Recent research suggests that despite constituting a small fraction of total apparel” with “has led to around 100 billion items of clothing being consumed annually Recent research suggests that despite constituting a small fraction of total apparel”. Replace “In the late 2010s fashion emitted 2 4 of world total greenhouse gases and it contributes.” with “In 2023 fashion emitted almost 2 of world total greenhouse gases and it contributes.”.

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