The High Price of Cheap New Clothes

A boy stands on a pile of leather scraps beside a canal in the Hazaribagh neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Waste and chromium-laden effluent from unregulated leather tanneries have made Hazaribagh one of the most intensely polluted places on Earth.

A boy stands on a pile of leather scraps beside a canal in the Hazaribagh neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Waste and chromium-laden effluent from unregulated leather tanneries have made Hazaribagh one of the most intensely polluted places on Earth.

The Shocking Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Leather and Fabric Industries.

It’s not unusual today for people to have closets overflowing with inexpensive clothes they never or rarely wear, only to toss away clothes worn only once or twice. But what they don’t realize is, even though the price tag may not be steep, there are incredible hidden costs and risks to their health and to the environment.

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