What if your latest purchase wasn’t really a choice? What if the product was designed to be replaced, the promise of “free” delivery, and the item you threw away never really went away? What if the problem isn’t that we aren’t buying the wrong things, but that we have been encouraged to buy far more than we actually need? These are the questions at the centre of Netflix's Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy, a thought-provoking documentary that takes a critical look at modern co

Firstly, what is greenwashing? Greenwashing is when organizations employ techniques to suggest that they are engaging in greener practices when, in reality, this is either exaggerated, misleading, or outright deceptive. For example, companies could pose behind ‘eco-friendly’ buzzwords without any tangibility, set false emission targets, or champion sustainable efforts whilst neglecting their polluting behaviours. In the field of fashion, greenwashing has become rife. When fa

My recent post highlighted Ghana’s plight in waste colonialism related to the textile trade. This time we focus on Chile. Chile is Latin America’s biggest consumer of clothes and, in 2022, imported around 124,000 tonnes of second-hand textiles from across the world. In the same year, it was estimated that 300 hectares in northern Chile had been contaminated by textile waste. The world’s chronic overproduction of textiles and fast fashion culture are a big part of this story.