“They should be ashamed of themselves”

A popular clothing retailer is selling fast fashion junk, as revealed in this TikTok.

Livekindly (@livekindly) showed the abundance of plastic and fast fashion trash inside a Forever 21.

@livekindly Back with another fast fashion ANTI-HAUL 🚫 These anti-hauls are designed to bring awareness to the wastefulness of fast fashion and to remind you to be a more mindful consumer! Are you talking about fast fashion? #fastfashion #antihaul #deinfluencing #forever21 #shein #slowfashion #sustainability #overconsumption ♬ original sound – LIVEKINDLY

The “anti-fast fashion transportation” video shows a bunch of cheap-looking Coca-Cola products, which Livekindly mentions is “the world’s biggest plastic polluter.”

They’re right: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé have been named the top plastic polluters for several years running, according to Waste Management World.

Livekindly also finds neon plastic bags, dodgy DIY shorts, and tons of useless gadgets wrapped in plastic.

“Save your money, save the planet,” they say.

Fast fashion is terrible for the planet, and it’s also not great for your wallet to buy new clothes so often.

Business Insider detailed the intense environmental damage caused by the fast fashion industry, including polluting waterways with toxic chemical byproducts, depleting finite natural resources, and producing 10% of the carbon pollution in the atmosphere that traps the heat of the planet.

Fast fashion products are usually made quickly with lower quality materials.

🗣️ What should the government do about the fast fashion industry?

🔘 Establish strict regulations 🚫

🔘 Encourage sustainable options 💰

🔘 Use both regulations and incentives 🏛️

🔘 Nothing 🙅

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Because of their quality, most of these clothing items are only worn a handful of times before being discarded, and getting worse. According to the United Nations Environment Program, “the number of times a garment is worn has decreased by 36 percent in 15 years.”

Then, “85% of all textiles go to landfill each year,” according to Business Insider.

That’s billions of pounds of clothing headed for landfills.

Break with fast fashion. Shop thrift stores or locally for new clothes. And if clothes wear out, extend their useful life by trying to visibly mend, donate to thrift stores or local shelters, or recycle fabric scraps. Some companies, like Trashie and ThredUp, will reward you for sending old clothes.

Commenters were disappointed at Forever 21.

“Forever 21 should be ashamed,” one user wrote.

“Also, let’s not forget that workers are not paid fairly for these things,” another commenter mentioned.

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