Crude Couture: - Fashion Brands' Continued Links to Russian Oil

Fast fashion and the rise of polyester Source: Tecnon Orbichem, 2021 largest user of plastic and the production of synthetic fibres accounts for 1.35% of As well as increasing, the extraction of fossil fuels for fashion is getting dirtier,9 all oil use,B which is higher than the annual oil consumption of Spain.8 including fracked gas and contentious sources such as Saudi Aramco, the world’s bigges. [...] The fact that part of the Russian oil ends up in the production the inadvertent funding of Russia’s war in Ukraine through the global fashion supply chain. [...] These profits will be invested in expanding Reliance’s polyester capacity, further fuelling the fashion industry’s addiction Over the course of a year-long supply chain investigation, we examined the routes through to synthetics.18 which polyester, the fashion industry’s favourite fibre, is sourced and produced (see the full methodology in the annex of the “Dressed to Kill” report). [...] companies on supplier lists, we discovered an alarming fact: 78% of the brands included Despite the fact that more than half of the fashion brands that we investigated in our in our research (39 out of 50) were directly or indirectly linked to the use of Russian oil “Dressed to Kill” report suspended or withdrew their Russian operations after the in- in their polyester-based products. [...] According to the company, any further visibility of the supply chain will be response rate we have received in the past years, despite the concise length of the updated on the Open Supply Hub.