Did you know it takes 2,100 gallons of water just to make one pair of jeans? And that it takes 700 gallons of water to make one cotton T-shirt?
– textile manufacturing produces more emissions than all international flights and shipping combined and is responsible for more than 20% of wastewater produced globally.“Hyper-consumerism and fast fashion, you think about the implications that it has on our environment, right?” Libby Castillo, with Goodwill San Antonio said.
It’s why thrifting and shopping gently-used doesn’t just save you money, it’s also saving the planet. Within San Antonio Goodwill’s, 1.3 million pounds of hazardous electronic equipment was responsibly recycled.
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