Valuetainment - The Hard Truth About Fast Fashion - Trashing 92 Million Tons of Clothes Every Year

00:00:00.000 If I was to inspect your closet today, how many pieces would I see of H&M, Zara, or Fashion Nova

00:00:04.660 called fast fashion, right? Would I find any? How many? And by the way, did you know Americans 1.00

00:00:09.680 every year, how many pounds of clothing we throw away every year? Nearly 82 pounds. And according

00:00:16.560 to the True Cause, a documentary, the world consumes around 80 billion new pieces of clothing

00:00:21.960 every year, 400% more than the consumption of 20 years ago. You mean 20 years later,

00:00:26.800 my closet is 400% bigger? Why? Who's selling us this? Are we making the right decisions here?

00:00:32.380 Let me give you another one here that's crazy. Of the 100 billion garments produced annually,

00:00:36.800 92 million tons ended up in landfills. I mean, there's a lot of people that talk about climate

00:00:41.880 change, but there's a big difference with pollution against climate change. Climate change, we have to

00:00:45.660 believe what scientists are telling us. Pollution is measurable. You can see these numbers and say,

00:00:49.440 this is actually happening. Just online returns in the US created 16 million tons of CO2 emissions

00:00:55.840 in 2020. The fashion industry is responsible for 20% of global wastewater. This next one's

00:01:01.900 going to blow you away. Ready? Fast fashion alone generated more CO2 than aviation and shipping

00:01:07.600 combined. Crazy. And again, for those of you that are worried about the climate and what we're doing

00:01:12.240 to the world, watch this here. Synthetic fibers and garments can take hundreds of years to decompose

00:01:17.280 releasing harmful chemicals and greenhouse gases, according to United Nations Environmental

00:01:21.840 Program. So look, I mean, we're not sitting here saying walk around naked tomorrow. It's not what

00:01:25.400 I'm telling you. I'm not telling you don't go shopping. All I'm telling you is maybe we got

00:01:28.720 more stuff in our clothes today than 20 years ago. Maybe that's a problem we got to address,

00:01:32.260 and maybe that's going to cause us to have more savings in the bank. We're going to talk about

00:01:34.720 all that stuff today. If you get value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the

00:01:38.180 channel. Look, I mean, obviously, if you're watching some of this data, you're like, Pat, this is

00:01:40.940 absolutely insane. Here's another one for you. $500 billion is lost each year due to underwearing and

00:01:46.180 failure to recycle clothes. Globally, only 12% of clothing material is recycled, contributing to

00:01:52.040 significant financial environmental losses. Now watch, all these stats, again, gives you crazy

00:01:56.240 reaction, right? We haven't talked about labor exploitation, not global impact, not influence

00:02:00.500 on purchasing behavior and clothing use. And last but not least, a couple of feedback on what you can

00:02:04.540 do about it yourself to be conscious about what's going on today. So labor exploitation. Now, obviously,

00:02:09.360 we can look at this and it's never a pretty sight. An estimated 170 million children are engaged in child

00:02:15.200 labor with many working in garment industry. This is international labor organizations. According

00:02:20.560 to ecofriendlyhabits.com, 60% of those who labor in the global fashion industry are children under

00:02:25.720 the age of 18, making child labor one of the major fast fashion problems. Another study from the U.S.

00:02:30.940 Department of Later in 2018 found evidence of forced and child labor in the fashion industry in

00:02:35.540 Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Vietnam, and others. And even in 2013,

00:02:40.980 an eight-floor factory collapse that housed several garment factors in Bangladesh, killing 1,134 workers

00:02:46.980 and injuring more than 2,500. So if you're watching this and Pat, so what is your, of course, all this

00:02:51.420 stuff we're hearing, nobody wants to do this, but what do you do? Do we produce all this stuff in

00:02:54.520 America? Then it's not fast fashion. Then if a piece is going to cost 50 cents to make somewhere

00:02:58.040 else, you want me to not pay $95 for it? I could have bought it here for 19 bucks because it's being

00:03:02.060 built in all these other places. That's the challenge, right? That they're relying on some of these

00:03:06.160 markets to make it. So it is a fast fashion. So you can buy cheap instead of having to pay the

00:03:10.160 different markets. But the reality is you get to pick and choose if you support this or not from

00:03:13.980 the brands you buy. And you get to also support it to say, do I really need 400% more clothes in

00:03:18.760 a closet today than I did 20 years ago? That's the real issue that we're being convinced we need more

00:03:23.280 clothes of which most we never wear anyway. So let me get to the next part here. The number of times a

00:03:28.160 garment is worn has declined by around 36% in 15 years. It's kind of weird, right? We have 400% more

00:03:33.660 clothes, but we wear the garment we bought 36% less than we did 15 years ago. Weird math, no? Fast

00:03:40.060 fashion has led to what? A cultural impulse buying. Oh my God, let me buy it. Oh my God, let me buy it.

00:03:45.080 Never wear it, right? That's the whole concept. And then on top of that, social media and influencer

00:03:49.200 culture fuel desire for newness and novelty driving cycle of fast fashion consumption, according to

00:03:54.720 McKinsey and Company. So look, I can give you more data here, but let me kind of go into some solutions

00:03:58.540 and what we can do about it. Here's what I would do. Go into your closet, open it up, look at all your

00:04:02.960 pieces of clothes. Ask yourself, how many times have I worn this? Spreadsheet. Probably 80 times.

00:04:08.840 Cool. How many times this? No, one time. Great. Well, now rank them. What you wear the most,

00:04:12.820 what you wear the least. How much you paid for this? $98, $62, $16, $10, $300. Number of the amount

00:04:19.300 of times you wear it every year. So now you look at dollar, frequency, utility, usage, all that stuff.

00:04:25.200 And then I say, is there a trend and pattern on what I buy that I never wear? I know this for myself.

00:04:29.620 I'm guilty of all these things I'm talking about. All I'm thinking about is myself because Kelly says,

00:04:33.420 Pat, I don't know what your closet looks like, but you wear the same thing all the time. I don't know

00:04:36.640 if that's a compliment or like an observation, like you got to start wearing something new. I

00:04:39.300 wear the same thing all the time. These pants are my AG pants. Guess what? I wear these black AG

00:04:43.880 pants all the time and I love it. These shoes, guys, how many times have you seen me wear these

00:04:48.020 shoes? Be honest. It's okay. I'm not going to be offended. How many times? Be honest. How many times?

00:04:51.560 How many times? Can you say every day I wear these shoes? Would you say that my comfortably,

00:04:58.980 I wear these things every day. I mean, look at this guys. It's already torn in the front,

00:05:04.260 right? You know why I like these? They don't feel like anything when I wear them. It's so light.

00:05:08.600 I'm comfortable with it. Now you come to my closet. Do I have expensive shoes? Yes,

00:05:12.220 but I wear these every day, right? So utility, what do I use? What do I not use? Now I'm at a phase

00:05:17.980 of my life that it doesn't financially affect me. But when I open up my closet, I'm annoyed that I

00:05:23.640 have so many different options. I'd like to simplify for my own self. It drives me nuts. But what about

00:05:28.620 if you're watching this right now? You're saying, well, Pat, I only make $40,000 a year. What do I do?

00:05:32.460 You want me to tell you what I did when I was in the army? For five years, you know what was my

00:05:35.260 favorite place to go shop and buy clothes? It was called Goodwill. And me and my friend, Jeff,

00:05:39.860 we'd go, they were like, oh, dude, they got some real good stuff they turned in right now. And we'd say,

00:05:43.440 hey, Johnny, anything new that came in? Yeah, we got a bunch of stuff this week. Let's roll.

00:05:47.820 And I was like, oh, look at this shirt. This is the one I'm going to wear. That's polyester,

00:05:51.660 bell bottoms. My closet was filled with Goodwill clothes because I worked in the army. You know

00:05:56.600 how much money you make in the army? Nothing. Right here, Sam is telling me, Pat, you can also

00:06:00.760 buy stuff that's vintage stuff from eBay. What did you pay for this shirt? Five bucks. Another one is

00:06:04.800 Mike is talking about he wears gears that supports his friends. Great. You know, hey, I wear

00:06:08.400 Valuetainment. You may say, Pat, I love the Valuetainment brand. Great. Support stuff that you represent.

00:06:13.060 But you have to take inventory and look at that thing and not fall for this trap of what everybody else has

00:06:17.240 fallen for, especially if you cannot afford it. But if you go through your closet and you see that,

00:06:22.120 and then you come back and you say, I'm done. Like for me, a Xenia. Anything I buy Polo Xenia,

00:06:27.120 wash it one time, it's gone. Clothing that I know is a waste of time for me that I'm never going to

00:06:31.240 wear again. I go to the mall. The guy's like, well, you, you're definitely going to look good. And I'm

00:06:34.220 like, bro, you don't know me. I'm 45 years old. I will never wear this. It'll be in the closet to

00:06:37.880 waste of $2,000 for me. I know myself. The more you know yourself and you can have a little bit of a

00:06:43.860 minimalistic mindset when it comes on to clothes. Don't get me wrong. You need a nice suit. You

00:06:48.060 need a nice sports coat. You need some nice shoes. You need some nice tights. You need a couple of

00:06:51.540 nice shirts that you can get to mix it up, right? You need some of those things there to have. But

00:06:55.200 the stuff that we're doing right now, 400% for what? Over 20 years? And we're wearing the garment

00:07:00.540 36% less than we did 15 years ago? We're falling for this trap. And we're bringing awareness to you.

00:07:06.400 What you do about it is purely on you. Maybe this is a good video to watch. Your girlfriend,

00:07:10.360 with your wife, with your husband, with your family, with your kids, and say, hey, mom.

00:07:14.260 Hey, honey. Hey, kids. What do you think about this video? And if you're watching this right now,

00:07:19.220 you're seeing the fact that I told your mom or dad to watch this video with you. And you're saying,

00:07:22.840 mom, I don't like this Patrick Ben David guy because I want some of the new clothes. But then

00:07:26.540 at the end of the day, mom, you could tell your kids, well, if we don't do this, that money can go

00:07:30.160 into your pocket and you can save it. Now we're negotiating mom, dad, husband, wife, kids,

00:07:33.960 everybody. Make sense? You know, it's one of the things a lot of people are worried about right now,

00:07:36.660 what's going to happen with the economy, you know, taxes and election and war and all this

00:07:40.300 stuff. I am convinced the future looks bright and I am convinced affirmations matter. What you say

00:07:47.320 to the world, people around you will respond to that. If it's constant fear porn, everyone around

00:07:51.800 you is going to be afraid. If you believe the future looks bright as a husband, as a wife, as a

00:07:55.940 leader, as a father, as a mother, then represent it. So if you believe in that and you follow the

00:08:01.020 Valuetainment brand proudly, go represent the gear that we have, whether it's a hat, whether it's a shirt,

00:08:06.580 whether it's a mug, whether it's a backpack, but sport it. Confuse the people that work in the gym

00:08:11.980 by wearing future looks bright. And by the way, you know, what's one of the coolest stories we're

00:08:15.300 hearing is when other people wear Valuetainment gear and they run into each other and start doing

00:08:19.360 business together. It's a beautiful thing. Click on the link below, place your order, start

00:08:23.140 representing Valuetainment because you believe the future looks bright. If you got value out of this

00:08:27.920 video, I got another one. I want you to watch, especially if you want to save money, have more money in the

00:08:30.920 bank and more investments for yourself. It's the buy now, pay later epidemic that a lot of people

00:08:36.560 are falling for. If you've not seen that, click here to watch that video. Take care, everybody.

00:08:40.220 Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Valuetainment - March 04, 2024

The Hard Truth About Fast Fashion - Trashing 92 Million Tons of Clothes Every Year

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