College of New Jersey: This First-Year Seminar Empowers Students to Reduce the Environmental Impacts of the Fashion Industry
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
EWING, New Jersey, Dec. 19 -- The College of New Jersey issued the following news:
Keeping up with the latest fashion trends can be challenging at best, and wasteful -- even dangerous -- at worst.
In Kathleen Webber's First Year Seminar class, "The True Cost of Fashion," students learned what happens to our clothes when we're done wearing them: 84 percent of it ends up in landfills, where microplastics and harmful chemicals can seep into the ground and water.< . . .
Keeping up with the latest fashion trends can be challenging at best, and wasteful -- even dangerous -- at worst.
In Kathleen Webber's First Year Seminar class, "The True Cost of Fashion," students learned what happens to our clothes when we're done wearing them: 84 percent of it ends up in landfills, where microplastics and harmful chemicals can seep into the ground and water.< . . .