Toxical Fashion

Even the clothes that people buy leave carbon footprint behind. The nature has been used as a trash can for hazardous chemicals. The more the clothes are produced, the more toxic chemicals, such as lead, mercury and arsenic, are released to the nature, specifically to the water, after manufacturing process. The chemicals released are damaging to the living creatures and their habitat. If the production of chemical waste and toxic clothes are not stopped by the companies that produce them, the home and life of the all living organisms are in danger of extinction. Recently, 11 chemicals have been identified as it is used in textile industry, which is the second largest polluter, for containing toxins, carcinogens and hormone disruptors that should be banned. Even the big brands currently have 63% of harmful chemicals in their products, despite their high quality. The only responsible of pollution of the environment is not the producer factories. As the clothes are washed by the consumers, 700,000 particular microfibers are released directly into the water.