Fast Fashion Vocabulary

We wear fast fashion ( ) fewer than 5 times in total.

• items

• landfill site

• produce

• recyclable

We keep fast fashion items for about 35 days before ( ).

• throwing them on.

• throwing them away.

• throwing them up.

• throwing them out.

Fast fashion produces 400 % more ( ) than clothes we wear 50 times.

• textile

• raw materials

• carbon emissions

• global

People in the USA buy 80 billion new items of ( ) each year.

• recyclable

• clothing

• dresses

• textile

In the past 20 years, clothes ( ) in the USA have grown by 400 %.

• biodegradable

• global

• textile

• sales

British people send about 235 million items of clothing to ( ) each year.

• landfill sites

• carbon emissions

• items

• raw materials

The fashion ( ) produces 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon emissions a year.

• shop

• industry

• company

• world

Relating to the whole world. What does it mean?

• biodegradable

• item

• global

• textile

A place where large amounts of rubbish are buried. What is that?

• carbon emissions

• item

• raw materials

• landfill site

Old clothes made from ( ) fabric take 200 years to ( ).

• recyclable/produce

• non-biodegradable/

  decompose

• textile/produce

• global/decompose