Blog Post 6- In the article titled, ‘We Have No Idea How Bad Fashion Is For The Environment” by Alden Wicker, I found it very interesting that no one actually can track the effects that fashion has on the environment.

In the article titled, ‘We Have No Idea How Bad Fashion Is For The Environment” by Alden Wicker, I found it very interesting that no one actually can track the effects that fashion has on the environment. Wicker starts his article addressing the well-known fact that fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world, he then investigates the facts behind this statement that is commonly used throughout sustainable fashion panels, news sites, and blogs. It was shocking to find out that there is no record or tracking of how much the fashion industry pollutes the world, therefore causing large companies and production houses not believe the harm the fashion industry is responsible for. The Danish Fashion Institute even stated, “We don’t believe the statement to be accurate either, but we are aware that it has become a popular misconception” (Wicker, 2017). Even with the debate over climate change, people are still skeptical and non-believers when there are hard core facts in front of them so the fact that people are skeptical of the fashion industry’s pollution on the planet without the exact facts behind it is going to be hard to support. However, the fashion industry is so large and has factories all over the world and requires so much transportation due to outsourcing, there is no possible way it is not as polluting as it is rumored to be.

            After reading the article, “Sustainability megatrends: technological innovations for the earth” from edie newsroom, think that pollution tracking drones in the water and air would be a good solution to not only being able to track the pollution, but eventually help the pollution problem. The drones would be places in bodies of water near factories all over the world (especially in countries where thy dump dye into the water) and near factories in the air to track the carbon emission into the atmosphere. Once these drones can track the pollution numbers there will be raw facts behind the fashion industry’s pollution problem. Later, politicians can present this data in order to manage companies and factories and control their emission of carbon and hazardous chemicals. Eventually, there should be drones that can capture these hazardous chemicals and gases before they enter the ozone layer and atmosphere and the air we breathe. The faster technology and fashion start working together, the faster the pollution problem can be proven and solved.

References:

Sustainability megatrends: technological innovations for the earth. (n.d.). Retrieved October 29, 2017,from https://www.edie.net/library/Sustainability-megatrends-technology-and-innovation-business-developments/6756

Wicker, A. (2017, March 15). We Have No Idea How Bad Fashion Actually Is for the Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2017, from https://www.racked.com/2017/3/15/14842476/fashion-climate-change-environment-pollution