Current status of clothing loss

One of the reasons for the high number of 25 pieces of clothing that have never been worn is that they were purchased through online shopping, which is easy to do with one click, but when they actually arrive, they find that the size does not fit or is different from what they expected, and they give up wearing them.


There are also three main ways to let go of your clothes.
The first isto sell, give away, or donate them as used clothing.This accounts for 14% of the total.
The second is to have them collected as resources or in the community or in stores. This accounts for 18% of the total.
The third is to dispose of it as combustible or non-combustible waste.This accounts for 68％of the total.
In Japan alone, about 2.9 billion garments are supplied annually, but more than 1.5 billion garments remain unsold each year, of which about 1 million tons are said to be discarded annually.


Even if you were told the enormous figure of one million tons, you would have no idea whatsoever.
So I compared it to something familiar to us all!
One million tons means

・Equivalent to 250 Tokyo Towers（4,000 tons per Tokyo Tower）
・Equivalent to 25 Tokyo Sky Trees（40,000 tons per Tokyo Sky Tree）
・Enough for 20 Titanic ships（The Titanic weighs about 50,000 tons.）

That's an amazing number.
This much weight of clothing goes to waste every year.
Did you change your mind about clothing loss?