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digitaldiscipline "Fashion Victim" details a cycle of manufacturing and eventual waste that's escalating year by year to feed our constant demand for new things to put on our backs. (Lee reports that each year 4 million tons of clothing and other textile waste are dumped into U.S. landfills; the average American contributes almost 68 pounds to that total.) *
I think we all agree that I'm not normal. You know how much clothing I got rid of last year? A dozen pairs of socks & underwear and three towels, because they were worn out, and two t-shirts that K shrunk and now wears.
Seventy fucking pounds of clothing? I might be able to do that, once, if I realized I'd never move back north and got rid of all my heavy stuff, anything that doesn't get worn but is held onto for sentimental reasons, and most of my "nice" clothing.
[from salon.com - put up with a tree-hugger commercial to view the entire article]
I think we all agree that I'm not normal. You know how much clothing I got rid of last year? A dozen pairs of socks & underwear and three towels, because they were worn out, and two t-shirts that K shrunk and now wears.
Seventy fucking pounds of clothing? I might be able to do that, once, if I realized I'd never move back north and got rid of all my heavy stuff, anything that doesn't get worn but is held onto for sentimental reasons, and most of my "nice" clothing.
[from salon.com - put up with a tree-hugger commercial to view the entire article]
