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Sustainability underlying thread for student entrepreneur
Western News
By Keri Ferguson
November 12, 2021
Since high school, Rubaina Singla has always loved working in retail fashion, styling customers. But the waste she witnessed in the process was a constant concern.
"The fashion industry is the second-largest polluter on the planet," she said. "Every day we would get shipments of boxes and boxes of stock. In each box, there would be a couple hundred items of clothing, and each piece wrapped in a plastic bag."
"Seeing that every single day for years really got to me," she said. "That was just one store, but it happens in hundreds of stores in every mall. That waste really sparked my interest in sustainable fashion" (continue reading).
