Climate scientists have now informed people that wearing denim jeans is bad for the environment.
According to the Daily Mail, researchers from the Guangdong University of Technology analyzed the carbon footprint of traditional jeans as well as “fast fashion” jeans, a category of jeans only worn by a consumer an average of seven times.Fast fashion jeans, characterized by their rapid production, transportation, and disposal, were found to produce approximately 11 times more CO2 emissions than jeans worn more frequently. In contrast, traditional jeans, which are worn an average of 120 times, exhibited a significantly smaller carbon footprint.
