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Podcast: The Burning Case
Episode: Winter wardrobe essential: fair fashion policies
Description: The fashion industry has a really large and often negative impact on the environment and on people. Between the Rana Plaza disaster, in 2013, that killed over a 1000 textile workers to regular scandals about wages and working conditions and the environmental impact that range from extreme freshwater pollution to being responsible for 8% of the world's green house gas emissions, let's just say "it's not nothing". And the world is starting to realise. But the growing awareness seems to be focused mainly on the responsibility of fashion brands and consumers: "changing our consumption habits" to asking brands fo...