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- There was collapse in Rana Plaza clothing factory building in Dhaka Bangladesh. There was a crack on the wall but owner ignored it and forced workers to keep on working. That ignorance on safety measure and other peoples life led to more than a thousand of casualties.
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- People use pesticides and fertilizers to make more profit on cotton or other garment sources. Yet, they are disregarding the toxic which pollutes environment and even to human being. Companies of pesticides and fertilizers deny those severe negative effects with no responsibility.
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- Many children are suffering the side effects of pesticides like cancer, mental retardation and many other handicaps.
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- It said that each person throw away about 82pounds of clothes per year only in United States. It is the result of fast fashion. Fast fashion companies like H&M, Forever21 etc keep on making disposable clothes inducing customers to buy more clothes in cheap price which also make competition overheat and consequently affects workers in factory to be more harsh.
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- Kanpur is a capital of leather export in India. Growing demand on cheap leather caused a use of chromium-6 which is heavy chemical. Fashion industry is looking away those problem. The impact of toxic chromium-6 is not even measure.
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- Fashion Industry is 2nd most polluting industry in the world. They do not care nature economy and human economy. Even we are looking at only clothes not the reverse of a medal in the process.
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- Most of clothes are made in Bangladesh and India. Workers in those countries are not treated well as human being. They work too much, die a lot in some incidents and even lose children. The clothes we are wearing is made from their blood and sweat. But most of people have no idea how they make clothes in that severe condition.
This film made me to think a lot. Many people in fashion industry and also many students are just agonizing about making beautiful garments not the real matter like this. Because we think that it does not directly influence us. I think that by-standing is the worst thing. We should not learn just sewing, making patterns or designing. That is just fool’s gold. We should pay attention to the environmental and human right issues as well.
