Our Purpose
Sunami is dedicated to creating exciting, exclusive, and eco-friendly designs.
The Environmental Impact of
the Fashion Industry
The fashion industry as of 2021 is estimated to contribute 10% of all carbon admissions in the world. We collectively emit 50 billion tones of CO2e each year. At this rate, the most disastrous effects of climate change could occur by 2040. These effects include:
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coastlines wiped out by sea levels
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widespread drought and poverty
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large groups of displaced climate refugees
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An estimated 50 million people in the U.S., Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines will be exposed to flooding
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Unfortunately, only 20% of items recieved by resale stores are bought. The other 80% is largely discarded in landfills, which is another contributing factor to global warming from the fashion industry (Zaroff).
Quality Over Quantity
Out of all the fiber input that is used to make clothing, 87% is incinerated/disposed of in the landfill (Semaan). This is due to fast fashion, which is inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends, such as Shien, Forever 21, and Zara.
Fast fashion has always been popular, but with new companies like Shien and Romwe that are so cheap and accessible, it’s thriving. It is a privilege to be able to afford more than fast fashion, but many shoppers with this privilege may consume hundreds of dollars in fast fashion because they want quantity over quality, and that's the problem (Farra).
An IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report published in 2020 discovered that it is possible for the world to lower emissions enough to mitigate the damage from Climate Change, but only with political and public will.
"Climate crisis is here
and already impacting the most vulnerable
and the least responsible for creating it."
-Payal Parekh