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Why fast fashion brands in the EU could be held accountable for wasteful processes

“This legislation has the potential to finally address the roots of fashion’s environmental offenses: declining quality and overproduction,” she said. “No one is paying for the externalities of the fast-fashion business model or the high volume, high use of fossil fuel-based fashion. The potential for extended producer responsibility requirements would increase prices, making companies liable for their cheap clothing in the manner that a toxic plant is responsible for the waste or pollution they emit.”

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Fashion May Soon Be Mandated to Disclose Emissions as SEC Considers New Climate Ruling

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Today’s Preorder a Sustainability Solve? Think Again

"Just because you preorder thousands of cheaply made goods that will be worn a few times then discarded, doesn’t make that strategy any less wasteful."

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Garment Worker Protection Act Advance — Next Stop Newsom's Desk

"Kristen Fanarakis called the bill’s passage in the Assembly a “step in the right direction toward correcting the externalities that fashion imposes on society.”

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140 Brands Back Garment Worker Bill

"A vocal supporter of the bill, founder and creative director of Senza Tempo Fashion Kristen Fanarakis said it “must pass” for the “state to truly be the progressive leader it claims to be on sustainability.”

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