Burberry at London Fashion Week. Photo: ReutersSequins add glamour to any outfit, but eco-campaigners have urged London Fashion Week to ditch the sparkling plastic discs as they pollute oceans for centuries. For many, sequins are an emblem of the environmental damage caused by the fashion industry, which is also responsible for about 10% of the world's greenhouse gases. They are linked to worker abuses in the fashion industry, added McAlea, as sequins often must be hand-finished by workers in informal factories who are more likely to be exploited. "The fashion industry is largely producing things that we don't need - there's massive overproduction and overconsumption so we need to be getting to the root of the problem."

Source: Otago Daily Times February 19, 2020 01:18 UTC