Your clothes also contaminate (and much)

You only have to think about one thing: how often do you renew your wardrobe? With luck, if you have not been carried away by the marketing strategies of the large fast fashion chains (or fast fashion), which renew their inventories every fortnight, the average life of the clothes we wear is not usually more than three years. In fact, according to some studies, in Europe six million tons of textile products are discarded every year and only 25% are reused. Some figures that, without a doubt, make your ecological footprint have a greater impact on caring for the planet; since the textile industry is the second most polluting after oil. How can it be that your clothes pollute so much?

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Putting into practice some tricks to get more out of your closet, save money and be more sustainable with our environment is as simple as changing the way we relate to clothes. From the online second-hand clothing store Percentil.com they give us some practical ideas: