Clothes have environmental impacts based on their agricultural sources.

Reporting on a podcast called "For the Wild," Treehugger writier Katherine Marinko underscores the connection between fashion and its agricultural origins, pointing out that, like food, has environmental impacts.  These impact include land use practices and such as "fashion industry's role in illegal deforestation and seizure of land across the Global South, and its connection to serious soil and land contamination and degradation."*  Processing materials also has hidden impacts.  Dyes and other chemicals that are used to treat clothing end up contaminating local waterways. "A range of finishing treatments, such as wrinkle preventers and stain guards, as well as screen-printed designs, contain chemicals such as bisphenol A, formaldehyde, and phthalates. The same chemicals that we don't want in our water bottles go onto our clothing without question, and then enter waterways via the washing machine."*  The source of materials can be problematic as well.  "Tree-based fibers such as eucalyptus and bamboo, Tencel and modal, may use closed-loop chemical processing,"* but some sources include tree farms or virgin rainforest.

The original article can be found here​.

*Katherine Martinko, October 26, 2020, "Your Clothes are an Agricultrual Choice,"  Treehugger.com
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