Oxfam: Fashion industry on track to produce 138 billion items of unworn clothes a year by 2050

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Oxfam's 2025 Second Hand September campaign is being fronted by actress and presenter Jameela Jamil - Photographer: Sane Seven

Based on current trends the global fashion industry could soon produce enough unworn clothes to almost stretch from Earth to Mars and back, research claims

The fashion industry is on course to produce 138 billion items of unworn clothes every year by 2050 - equivalent to nearly four outfits for every person on the planet or enough to almost reach from the...

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