Fast fashion in China: big industry with even bigger problems
China is both the world’s largest textile producer and consumer thanks in part to E-commerce powerhouses Shein and Temu. These companies have turned China into one of the world’s largest producers of fast fashion. But according to an article in the Associated Press, underneath the in-country production and purchase of mountains of cheap clothing hides the dirty laundry of environmental damage and labor exploitation. Leading in EV production but