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The real cost of a cheap t-shirt shocked me
I was reading a report from the Clean Clothes Campaign last week and found out it takes about 2,700 liters of water to make one cotton t-shirt. That's enough drinking water for one person for two and a half years. I buy a few of these a year without a second thought. It made me stop and look at my closet full of fast fashion items I barely wear. The simple choice to buy one less shirt feels small, but the numbers show it's not. How do you balance wanting new things with knowing the real impact?
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kim_martin4d ago
Those water use numbers are always a bit misleading though. They count all the rainwater that falls on a cotton field over years, not just tap water used in a factory. The real issue is chemical runoff and poor wages. Buying one less shirt doesn't fix the pay for the person who made the other ten you own. Better to buy secondhand or from companies that are actually transparent about their factories.
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