Enviroment
What percentage of global emmisions is from the carbon imprint of Fast Fashion alone?
What is 10%?
How much money in dollars do H&M workers in Myanmar earn in a week?
a. 8
b. 12
c. 16
d. 20
e. 30
What is $16?
What is the average fast fashion shirt cost?
a. 10-20
b. 5-10
c. 5-20
d. 20-30
$5-$20
What is the opposite of Fast Fashion?
Slow Fashion
How many seasons do fast fashion brands have?
a.4
b.14
c. 31
d. 52
d. 52
Clothing is the #1 source of what type if plastic in the ocean?
What is microplastics?
What fraction of people in modern slavery are children?
What is 1/4?
Most fast fashion pieces fall apart after how many wears?
10
Websites like Poshmark, Depop, and ThredUp are popular platforms for this method of acquiring clothing without creating new waste.
What is second hand?
Define Fast Fashion (Multiple Choice)
A. Rapid production of inexpensive clothing that follows current fashion trends
B. Designing athletic wear specifically for speed and performance
C. Making trendy items but not paying workers well.
D. Making clothing from undurable material but selling it for a higher price.
What is, A. Rapid production of inexpensive clothing that follows current fashion trends?
What fabric has the most plastic?
What is Polyester?
How many people, in millions, live as modern slaves in the fashion industry?
What is 40 million?
Micro plastics come of off clothing, how does this affect the wearer?
By getting into water systems when washed.
What is the best aternitive to Fast Fashion?
a. Making your own clothes
b. Buying second hand
c. Buying local
d. All of the above
All of the above
This Spanish clothing giant, founded by Amancio Ortega, is widely considered the pioneer of the fast fashion model.
What is Fashion Nova?
What is the ratio of trucks of clothing dumped in a landfill, to amount of time?
A. 1 trucks per 15 minutes
B. 5 trucks per hour
C. 10 trucks per 5 minutes
D. 1 truck per minute
What is 1 truck per minute?
Ranza Plaza, a fashion company, collapsed in 2013 killing how many people?
a. 561
b. 893
c. 1134
d. 1523
What is 1134?
Fast fashion feeds _____ by providing a sense of pleasure or excitement from purchasing low-cost items quickly.
Cycle of addiction
Instead of throwing away damaged clothes, this 9-letter word describes the practice of repairing them to extend their life.
Up-Cycling
This online-only retailer, known for selling clothes for "pennies," is often criticized for its extremely fast production cycles and low-quality clothing.
What is Shein?
What Asian lake that once the fourth largest in the world has nearly dried up due to Fast Fashion?
What is the Aral sea?
In May 2013 following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, an agreemnet was singed, forcing over 200 brands to adopt strict safety inspections. What is the name of the agreemnet?
A. The Doha Voluntary Safety Protocol
B. The Bangkok Textile Agreement
C. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh
D. The Global Factory Improvement Initiative
What is The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh?
Because fast fashion brands like Zara and H&M release 52 "seasons" a year, consumers have adopted a "use and throw" mentality, leading to ______, a state of stress and anxiety from over-consuming.
What is throwaway culture?
What is the problem with buying second hand?
The second hand stores can have donations of Fast Fashion so when thrown away it still affects the enviroment but doesnt pay the original brand. So it depends on what you care about.
It takes roughly 1,800 gallons of water to produce the cotton needed for just one pair of this staple item.
What is jeans?