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How to build a Sustainable Closet on a budget

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                       Created by : Mihle Ndevu IG: @Mihlee_n                                    Edited by : Victoria Phillips IG: @kidtori   The fashion industry is one of the largest polluters globally. This is a sad reality but facts state that up to 85% of textiles are dumped into landfills each year. The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry after the oil and gas sector.   The pollution numbers are only growing with the growth of fast fashion (the clothing industry replicating trends, mass-producing them and selling at low cost ). Fast fashion is parallel to a drug cartel, it has many victims starting from workers suffering from poor working conditions in manufacturing firms to up-and-coming designers who have their work stolen by big corporations, and not being able to make a profit off of their own hard work. An example of this is a small black-owned business called Elexiay. They are an independent, sustainable business that had their work copied, or