What that this say about the pieces I've had and worn and loved for 10 years?
It takes 700 gallons of water to produce one t-shirt and another 700 gallons of water to wash it over its lifetime, Benedetto says. More than 2 billion shirts are sold around the world each year.
"By 2025, two-thirds of the entire world's population will face shortages of fresh water and be exposed to hazardous chemicals from textile production alone," she says. "And one would think that it's just in China and Vietnam and India, where we're manufacturing, but this is actually having an impact on our water in Europe and in the United States as well."
And here is part of how we can handle it: ( yes read both)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-life-changing-magic-of-making-do/?fbclid=IwAR0O5kCF8eEFlpPHw_mttGS0i-2mm3AJfY3EErKjq7yZbs3Oyy1v17wbwqM
And here is part of how we can handle it: ( yes read both)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/shopping-consumerism.html
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-life-changing-magic-of-making-do/?fbclid=IwAR0O5kCF8eEFlpPHw_mttGS0i-2mm3AJfY3EErKjq7yZbs3Oyy1v17wbwqM
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