Whitney Bauck is an independent reporter focused on fashion, climate and religion who contributes to the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and more. She edits the Unwrinkling Roundup newsletter about the intersection of fashion, the environment, human rights and faith, and can be followed on social media as @unwrinkling.
Many in the "trashing" community are motivated by the sense that valuable things are ending up in residential and commercial garbage where they don't belong — and, for the sake of the planet, that ought to change.
The way we currently make clothing leads to more than just sweatshops; it's also contributing to the kind of ecological sin that wrongs future generations and the Earth alike. But you can do something about it.
