Korea examines its problem with excessive clothes waste being dumped overseas
Source: Korea Economy via Nate
1. [+691, -12] A generation of excess ㅠ
2. [+557, -18] It's not just the clothes. I used to be a clothes designer and it's all the thrown-out textiles, scraps of swatches, line tape, silk pins, even the tape... the level of waste is beyond anything you can imagine...
3. [+477, -10] We live in a generation of excess consumption~!
4. [+58, -0] Every year, the same trends recycle themselves over and over with slight variations that celebrities, the fashion industry, and the media promote, treating anyone who doesn't fall in line like they're unfashionable. They all need to reflect on this.
5. [+36, -0] It's an excess of industrial products and consumption. It's awful. We really need to enter a generation where less is more.
6. [+35, -0] Let's please stop producing more. No more trends and changing styles.
7. [+34, -0] This is so bad... And all of this is produced with oils, too. Terrible for the environment.
8. [+34, -0] And yet we're still focusing on plastic straws and envelopes
9. [+29, -0] I saw a clothes waste documentary on YouTube and it's actually quite terrible. We call it export but they're basically dumps of clothes that we leave trashed and ignored that pollute the local environment and waters. People claim that all of this is being recycled but it's actually only a small bit that ends up getting recycled.
10. [+26, -0] The problem of excess has been around since industrialization. I remember back then, we only ever got new clothes for Chuseok holidays once or twice a year. A foreign notion for the newer generations, I'm sure...
11. [+18, -0] Wearing your clothes for as long as possible is what helps the environment. Don't chase trends.
12. [+14, -0] We're a society that cares what everyone thinks so everyone needs to have dozens of different outfits
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