1 - The U.S. wastes an incredible amount of money and resources due to fast fashion., 2 - As Bick et al. explain, "Fast fashion is a term used to describe the readily available, inexpensively made fashion of today”(2)., 3 - Because these inexpensive clothes are sold so inexpensively, people are buying more and more clothing and getting rid of the clothes they no longer wish to keep., 4 - This cycle of buying and getting rid of clothes creates more waste., 5 - In fact, Bick et al. note that “Approximately 85 % of the clothing Americans consume, nearly 3.8 billion pounds annually, is sent to landfills as solid waste"(2)., 6 - They go to explain how this landfill waste creates almost 80 pounds of waste per year., 7 - This is an unbelievable amount of waste that is mostly due to the increase in fast fashion., 8 - The more items available cheaply to the public, the more people will consume., 9 - This naturally leads to more waste.  , 10 - Some may argue that not all used clothing is thrown in the trash; in fact, some is donated and sold second-hand.  , 11 - This may be true, but "[s]econd-hand clothing not sold in the United States market is compressed into 1000-pound bales and exported oversees to be "graded" ( Bick et al. 2)., 12 - This "grading" is done by low-wage workers and involves reorganizing the clothing so that they can be sold again (Bick et al.), 13 - This all shows the amount of time and resources that go into dealing with the large amounts of discarded clothing created by fast fashion.  , 14 - In short, this is a modern-day practice that seems inexpensive, but actually costs the world a great deal. ,

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