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The Unravel club at UCLA hopes to educate students about the negative environmental effects of “fast fashion,” emphasizing thrifting as a means to reduce pollution and textile waste. Here, the Daily Bruin&#039;s Karen Im explores the environmental consequences of &quot;fast fashion&quot; production practices. (Jenna Nicole Smith/Daily Bruin)

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The Quad: Students cultivate re-commerce industry to counter fast fashion&#039;s ecological harm - Daily Bruin

The Quad: Students cultivate re-commerce industry to counter fast fashion&#8217;s ecological harm

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The word “pollution” tends to evoke images of devastating oil spills in vast oceans or black fumes spilling from big, industrial factories. Interestingly, the tremendous environmental implications behind the trendy clothes that hang in our own closets seem to constantly slip our minds.

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The Quad: Students cultivate re-commerce industry to counter fast fashion’s ecological harm

By Karen Im

Nov. 29, 2018 4:15 p.m.