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From fast fashion to e-waste: the real cost of throwaway consumer culture

Where products go to die
E-waste crisis
Lost gold
Steel bonanza
Trashed TVs
Dumped computers
Discarded cell phones
Abandoned appliances
Toxic substances
Exporting e-waste
Illegal landfill sites
Corporate initiatives
Reconditioning electricals
Fast fashion
Global secondhand clothing trade
Secondhand clothing hubs
Donating to a good cause
Ditched clothing
Wasted food
Throwing money in the food bin
Millions without food
Cost to the environment
Reducing food waste
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Where products go to die

We're constantly being encouraged to update and upgrade our tech, dumping our older but still functioning products in the process. Outlets pushing fast fashion having us taking the same approach with our clothes, and with excessive grocery shopping we are biting off, or at least buying, more than we can chew.  All these discarded products have to go somewhere and a lot goes to landfill. Click or scroll through to discover the financial and environmental cost of our modern throwaway culture.

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lovemoney staff

26 March 2020

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