In Make Me Smart podcast # 135, “Your Outfit is Trash”, our tech heroine Molly Wood interviews Dana Thomas, Fashion and Style Journalist, Author of “Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes”. We learn that a garment in the US is only worn 7 times before it is tossed into landfill. Only 1% gets recycled! And most of the landfill items don’t breakdown because the garments are made of polyester… and polyester is plastic which does not breakdown. Jeans? At any time during the day, 50% of the planet is wearing jeans made of synthetic indigo: a highly toxic substance. Fast fashion is having an enormous impact on our planet. This fascinating podcast will make you rethink your choice of new clothing, as well as what you do with your old clothes. Local startup Sellhound has a great solution making it brain-dead simple to sell your old clothes on 74 number of different marketplaces such as eBay, bonanza, Bookoo, Bump, and more. And there is Better Finds which empowers you to donate old clothes to a charity of your choice.

We need someone like Jackie Nuñez of The Last Plastic Straw to lead the charge now against fast fashion. Help us Obi-Wan-Sellhound and Obi-Wan-Jackie!

PS. We also love Kai Ryssdal!

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