Vinted or Primark? Why Christians need to be involved in the fight against fast fashion

Hannah Wickens explains why the recent French bill to curb budget clothing manufacturers is so important, and looks at what we can do to be less wasteful with our clothes.

In March this year, France issued a bill banning ultra-fast fashion in a quest to stifle the increasing global impact that the textile industry is having on the environment, with a staggering 10% of annual global carbon emissions generated by clothes manufacturers (Oxfam.org.uk).

In practice, this law will trim the excess that perpetrators such as Chinese owned Shien and Temu yield, with daily production of 10,000 items of low grade, synthetically made budget clothes. These marketplace moguls will face fines for the advertising and selling of such products, decreasing their profits, and eventually making it untenable to continue – perhaps retribution for their flagrant disregard of environmental and economic concerns.