Fast fashion - Facts and figures

We wear fast fashion items fewer than _____ times in total.

• 10

• 15

• 5

• 3

We keep fast fashion items for about _____ days before throwing them away.

• 33

• 35

• 31

• 37

Fast fashion produces _____ more carbon emissions than clothes we wear 50 times.

• 400%

• 200%

• 350%

• 150%

People in the USA buy _____ billion new items of clothing each year.

• 75

• 90

• 60

• 80

In the past twenty years clothes sales in the USA have grown by _____ .

• 390%

• 400%

• 350%

• 430%

British people send about 235 _____ items of clothing to landfill sites each year.

• thousand

• million

• hundred

• billion

The fashion industry produces _____ tonnes of carbon emissions a year.

• 2 billion

• 1 billion

• 1.3 billion

• 1.2 billion

_____ litres of water are used in the lifetime of one pair of jeans.

• 3,800

• 3,871

• 3,000

• 3,880

In the UK they burn or send to landfill _____ rubbish lorries of clothes every minute.

• 60

• 50

• 70

• 80

Old clothes made from nonbiodegradable fabric take _____ years to decompose.

• 180

• 210

• 190

• 200