The hidden costs of cheap fashion
This seminar, a collaboration between King’s Centre for Sustainable Business and King’s Climate & Sustainability, will delve into the waste generated by fast fashion, its effects on our planet, and the human cost behind the low-price tags.
This seminar will expose the waste crisis fueled by fast fashion, examining its impact on both people and the planet, discussing how we can shift towards a more ethical and sustainable fashion industry.
Speakers
Byungdoo Kim
Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Business (CSB) at King's Business School. His research focuses on how consumers understand sustainability and implement it in their daily choices, as well as how different framing of sustainable consumption solutions influence public perceptions and actions.
Rupa Ganguli
As founder and CEO of Inclusive Trade, Rupa’s mission is to build an ethical ecosystem by enabling technology for sustainability in trade. They are one of four Small Business Champion (WTO, ITC and ICC joint initiative) awardees globally recognised for their innovative solutions.
Sam Quashie-Idun
Multimedia skilled journalist with a background in law and investigative journalism. He is currently the Head of News Investigations at Greenpeace Africa. He has authored the report, “Fast Fashion, Slow Poison – The Toxic Textile Crisis in Ghana”.
Isabella studied Global health, Social Justice and Public Policy MSc at King’s College London. Students Isabella Childs, Tolu Faderin and Tara Imalingat won the Audience Prize and the Overall Prize at Policy Idol 2024. They pitched a policy idea titled ‘Fashioning the future: confronting waste colonialism through student agency’. The problem they aimed to address is the large exports of textile waste from the UK to countries in the Global South. This waste fills up landfills and polluted local waterways. The team argued that this is ‘waste colonialism’ as it places the burden of waste management on the receiving country and perpetuates cycles of ill-health and environmental degradation.
Schedule
15:30 - 16:30: Speaker presentation and discussion
16:30 - 17:00: Q&A with audience
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