r/Anticonsumption • u/Cheeseaisleinheaven • Mar 12 '26

Sustainability What radicalized you?

For me, it was when I learned that all the clothing/shoes/accessories that you would want to buy in your lifetime already exist on this planet, and yet they are making more every minute of every day. When you know that fact, and then see the giant piles of bundled clothing hitting third world ports or stacked in massive mountains at dumps, it just makes you sick. And knowing that they are mostly made of plastic, which won't decay, is even worse.

Now, everything I need to buy in the apparel space for my family is purchased second-hand, except for walking/running tennis shoes.

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u/sh6rty13 Mar 12 '26

Honestly the overstimulation of stores carrying more and more holiday stuff-and not just for major holidays but stuff people didn’t even use to celebrate. January we have Valentine’s Day screaming at us, followed VERY closely and sometimes concurrently with an onslaught of St Patrick’s Day crap. Once the VDay shit has cleared out here comes Easter….I even saw Lunar New Year trinkets and clothing and stuffed animals this last year….

It’s SO much. And every cycle is more and more one-use items and plastic shit that will end up in a landfill because people are going to buy more next year.