Transcript: Sustainability in fashion quiz
Question 1:
True or false: Fast fashion items are usually basic pieces of clothing which people need for school and work.
Answer:
This statement is FALSE. Fast fashion garments are usually ‘trendy’ pieces of clothing copying popular styles from fashion shows and celebrity culture.
Question 2:
How many kilograms of unwanted clothing ends up in landfill each year in Australia?
a) 260 million kilograms;
b) 185 million kilograms or;
c) 76 million kilograms.
Answer:
The answer is A – 260 million kilograms.
Source:
Kelly C (20 July 2022) ‘Australians buy almost 15kg of clothes every year and most of it ends up in landfill, report finds’, The Guardian, accessed 01 December 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/20/australians-buy-almost-15kg-of-clothes-every-year-and-most-of-it-ends-up-in-landfill-report-finds
Question 3:
True or false: Fast fashion is one of the world’s largest polluters of clean water.
Answer:
This is TRUE. Fast fashion pollutes the water with cheap, toxic dyes, hazardous chemicals, and microfibres.
Source:
Rauturier S (2022) ‘What Is Fast Fashion and Why Is It So Bad?’, Good On You website, accessed 1 December 2022. https://goodonyou.eco/what-is-fast-fashion/
Question 4:
How many litres of water are used to make a single pair of jeans?
a) 20,000 litres;
b) 7,500 litres or;
c) 1,200 litres.
Answer:
The correct answer is B. It can take up to 7,500 litres of water to make one pair of jeans – that’s what the average person drinks over 7 years.
Source:
United Nations (2019) ‘UN launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable’, United Nations website, accessed 1 December 2022. https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/03/1035161
Question 5:
How many cubic meters of water does the fashion industry use annually?
a) 93 billion cubic metres of water;
b) 93 million cubic metres of water or;
c) 903 thousand cubic metres of water.
Answer:
The answer is A – 93 billion cubic metres of water. Per year, the fashion industry uses enough water to meet the needs of five million people.
Source:
United Nations (2019) ‘UN launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable’, United Nations website, accessed 1 December 2022. https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/03/1035161
Question 6:
True of false: If a clothing company says they are ‘eco-conscious’ it means that their business and products are all sustainable.
Answer:
The answer is – FALSE. Many clothing companies know that consumers like to buy things that have been produced sustainably and may make misleading statements about how environmentally friendly their products really are. This is called ‘greenwashing’.
Source:
Changing Markets Foundation (2021) ‘Synthetics Anonymous: Fashion brands’ addiction to fossil fuels’, Changing Markets Foundation website, accessed 1 December 2022. https://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SyntheticsAnonymous_FinalWeb.pdf