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=Waste Couture: Environmental Impact of the Clothing Industry =

"Pietra Rivoli, a professor of international business at the McDonough School of Business of Georgetown University, writes that each year Americans purchase approximately 1 billion garments made in China"

"According to the EPA Office of Solid Waste, Americans throw away more than 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per person per year."

"The owner of a textile factory in Dhaka threatens a child laborer, who works for 10 hours a day to earn US$1."

"Chinese workers make as little as 12–18 cents per hour working in poor conditions."

"Cotton, one of the most popular and versatile fibers used in clothing manufacture, also has a significant environmental footprint. This crop accounts for a quarter of all the pesticides used in the United States."

"In the European Union, the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations enacted 1 June 2007 require clothing manufacturers and importers to identify and quantify the chemicals used in their products."