The clothing industry puts a huge strain on the environment. How? Let us take a look at the life of a common garment: t-shirt.
The movement towards a cleaner environment got a huge push recently when the Irish Parliament passed a bill that would make Ireland world's first country to fully divest public money from fossil fuels.
This is the age of hard sell: everything that is or can be on sale, is being sold aggressively through promotions, advertisements, media campaigns, claims of how good the product is, what health benefits it supposedly has, etc... and that also goes for the food that we eat.
Remember the last time you packed a gift on your best friend’s birthday? Well, wrapping up or ‘packaging’ comes naturally to human beings. Not only to make the things inside it look pretty but also to protect them from breaking, tearing or getting dirty. In ancient times, leaves and cloth were the common packaging stuff. But now we have a vast range of ‘packaging materials’. What are they? Also, what happens to the package once we have used what was inside it? It is of no use to us. What happens to the large amount of packaging material generated by huge populations around the world?
