Opinion: Cheap clothes are cheap clothes, but fast fashion is the real environmental problem
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Carolyn Moore says the government’s Waste Action Plan rightly tackles fast fashion – which encourages mass consumerism, exploitation and waste – but says that doesn’t mean cheap clothes are in the firing line.
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