tons a year that's more than from all international flights a maritime shipping combined. the clothing industry also uses lots of chemicals 3000 different ones can be used in the production of t. shirts. a lot of pesticide and other chemical residues end up in waterways textile production accounts for 20 percent of industrial waste water pollution worldwide. fast fashion means clothes are manufactured ever faster and more cheaply retail is change that collections with great rapidity clothing production has more than doubled since 2000 more than $100000000000.00 garments are produced each year. and people tend to keep their clothes wherever shorter periods of time it's estimated that more than half of fast fashion produce is disposed of in under a year. only a quarter of discarded clothes worldwide are recycled. the rest are simply thrown away of the total 5 the input used for clothing 87 percent is eventually