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How bad is fashion for the environment?


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17 September 2022

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Is fashion really the second most polluting industry after oil and does it account for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions? Sustainable fashion journalist Alden Wicker does some fashion fact checking with Adam Fleming, presenter of BBC podcast and Radio 4 programme Antisocial. And reporter Charlotte McDonald revisits a claim made in an edition of More or Less last month about the effectiveness of using condoms as a form of contraception.

Presenter: Tim Harford

Producer: Jon Bithrey

Editor: Richard Vadon

Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson

Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar

(Image: Models display outfits / BBC images/Susana Vera/Reuters)