Greening Up My Act

FFF: thredUP, Textile Recycling, and the Hell That Is Fast Fashion


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Journey with your favorite sustainability podcast into the world of online consignment shopping like thredUP and learn more than you ever wanted to know about why fast fashion is THE WORST. Bonus: find out what FFF means to us and start chanting it under your breath every time you pass a clothing store. 

Sources: 

  • US News and World Report: 7 Top Online Consignment Shops for Selling your Clothes 
  • The Guardian: ‘It’s like a death pit’: How Ghana became fast fashion’s dumping ground 
  • Better Business Bureau: Complaints about thredUP, Inc. 
  • The Roundup: 17 Most Worrying Textile Waste Statistics and Facts 
  • Green America: What Really Happens to Unwanted Clothes? 
  • The Good Trade: How does textile recycling work? 
  • Reader’s Digest: This is What Really Happens to Your Used Clothing Donations 
  • Vogue: How Sustainable Is Consigning Clothing? The RealReal Is Glad You Asked 
  • We Hate Waste - Visible Mending is Trending 

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Greening Up My ActBy Kat Cox & Tiffany Verbeck

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