How Ethical is Your Fashion?

When I go shopping for clothes I love a good bargain but lately I've been asking myself if I am another person caught up with the obsession of throw away fashion; wanting new things all the time.  And I've been finding out what an effect our obsession with bargain clothes is having on other people and the environment.

Did You Know?
- Every year we buy around 2 million tonnes of clothes, and about 1.5million tonnes end up in a landfill.

- Clothes are now so cheap because we pay so little to the people who make them.

Click on the links below to read more articles on similar subjects:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7232563.stm

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/africa/article3097481.ece

Let us know what you think; are we a nation addicted to shopping?

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