The planet versus Gen Z’s fast fashion microplastics
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23 Jul 2024
The planet versus Gen Z’s fast fashion microplastics

The acceleration of trend cycles has caused the demand for fast fashion (and the synthetic textiles used throughout the industry) to skyrocket. How might concerns about the effects of microplastics on health finally shift younger generations' conflicting attitudes towards the sector?

Eloise Skinner

Eloise Skinner is an author and psychotherapist with a specialism in existential therapy. She's also the founder of The Purpose Workshop and One Typical Day. Her work focuses on finding meaning, purpose, fulfilment, and value in everyday life, as well as topics such as AI, the future of work, climate anxiety, and related existential topics. Skinner sits on the youth board of the UK’s national social mobility charity and is an enterprise advisor for the Mayor of London’s education and careers strategy.

Rosa Busquets

Rosa Busquets is an associate professor at Kingston University’s School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy, and Chemistry.

Ana Hristova

Ana Hristova is a global campaign strategist at Greenpeace International.

Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes is the category and marketing director at Xeros, an R&D innovation company made up of scientists, engineers, and thinkers, creating and scaling lower-impact technologies for the manufacture and care of our clothing. Xeros is disrupting traditional methods with patented and proven innovations that, so far, have saved millions of litres of water and could prevent billions of microfibres from ending up in our oceans.

Andrew Barrett

Andrew Barrett is a business development manager for Matter, which develops scalable filtration and complementary technologies to address industrial-scale pollution sources such as textiles manufacture and wastewater treatment.

Marcus Jaye

A pioneer of digital content, The Chic Geek, a.k.a. Marcus Jaye, has grown to become one of the UK’s most respected and influential bloggers on style and fashion. An expert within the men’s style arena, The Chic Geek has previously written for titles including GQ, Shortlist, and Men’s Health, and appeared on TV and BBC radio. His first book, The Chic Geek’s Fashion, Grooming & Style Guide For Men, was published in 2011, and his second, #FashionWankers, was published in 2019.