Reacting to the Government’s response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report, Fixing Fashion: Clothing Consumption and Sustainability, Labour’s London Assembly Environment Spokesperson, Leonie Cooper AM, said:
“It is extremely disappointing that the Government have recklessly rejected all of the recommendations put forward by the report which has been vital in highlighting the darker side of our fashion industry.
“It is clear that the fashion industry urgently needs reform and to clean up its act. Fast fashion produces hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste each year, with unsold stock gratuitously sent to landfill.
“The report also identified the endemic issue of workers in the industry being paid below minimum wage and put at risk of being placed into modern day slavery.
“Londoners want stringent action on the environmental crisis we are facing as well as the scourges of social injustice and exploitation, but the Government have sadly shown an unwillingness to step up yet again”.
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Notes to editors
- The Environmental Audit Committee’s Report, Fixing Fashion: Clothing Consumption and Sustainability, can be found here;