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Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by ggm on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:29PM (#29658345)
Bottle and can recycling worked with incentives. But both are valuable to the receiver outside of the cash incentive on energy grounds. I don't think fabric recycling has that energy benefit so I am unsure incentives would work full life cycle.

But you could be right: carbon pricing down to the edge on all things might actually be good economics if we can work out how to make it run. Please don't say blockchain

Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by IgorPartola on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:47PM (#29658440)
I have one better than blockchain. When can we all get those futuristic ones piece outfits with the lightning bolt across the torso? I was led to believe that’s what everyone would be wearing sooner or later.
Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by ggm on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:54PM (#29658482)
"Things to come" (1935) and "metropolis" (1927) said loincloths and Greek togas for elites but boilersuits for plebs. I would wear a spandex "onesie" with a lightning bolt.. for about 30 seconds.
Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by bryanrasmussen on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:50AM (#29659621)
> I would wear a spandex "onesie" with a lightning bolt.. for about 30 seconds.

sure - long enough for you to run around Central City robbing every bank.

Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by throwhauser on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:09PM (#29658551)
> I would wear a spandex "onesie" with a lightning bolt.. for about 30 seconds.

Which brings us right back to (very) fast fashion.

Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by ggm on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:24PM (#29658639)
OK. Let's make one onesie, call it an NFT and you have to post a picture wearing it, before you pass it on to somebody else.
Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by jjoonathan on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:16AM (#29658903)
Don't forget the underwear on the outside!
Re:Shein beat Amazon and reinvented fast fashion by Vetch on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:18AM (#29659486)
The problem, not unique to fast fashion, is we've structured things such that recycling is rarely economical. That shouldn't be the case, our damage to ecosystems means prices are not properly accounting for the cost of negative externalities.

Whether in inputs (unethical labor practices, questionable material composition, hazardous inputs handling, manipulative marketing tactics and artificial scarcity) or in outputs (planned obsolescence, unsustainable consumption, disposal, discounting full product life-cycle), socio+ecological costs are ignored to maximize profits while keeping prices fairly low.

It's good to democratize access to more and fancier options but if this comes by cheating and a dishonest accounting of costs, it's not worth it (full cost accounting will be better in the long run, having to account for product full life cycle might spur investment and innovations in say, mechanical disposal automation or plasma arc gasification).