Diving Into the Ecosystem Impacts of Clothing

Shown is a colour illustration of three factories with large pipes pouring colourful liquid into a river.

There are three buildings with tall windows and smokestacks along a river bank. Two are grey and one is brown. Each one has a large grey pipe extending from the front wall into the river. The liquid from the first factory is pink, the second is orange, and the third is yellow. All the colourful liquid combines as it flows down in the blue river.

Shown is a colour illustration of bare feet on a beach.

In the top left, a pair of bare feet with dark brown skin is shown from the mid-calf down. The person is digging their toes into beige sand. Below, the sand gets darker as it gets closer to the water. Greenish blue waves wash up on the sand. These create a strip of white foam and bubbles, diagonally across the picture.

Shown is a colour illustration of a factory and a house, and the underground water below both. 

A square piece of land is sliced like a cake. It floats on a dark grey background. The top layer is green grass. A grey factory is on one corner, and a house with a well is on the other. Below is a layer of rock and soil,  a layer of blue water, then more rock and soil.

On the surface, rain falls over the factory and puddles on the ground. More water pours out of a pipe on the front of the building. Yellow liquid also leaks out of the factory, forming a puddle. Below the surface, a blue arrow indicates water and tiny yellow particles leaching through the ground and into the water underneath.

Another blue arrow shows the contaminated water from the factory is flowing underneath the house. Under the well, a third blue arrow shows the same water coming up to the surface.

Shown is a colour illustration of rain, magnifying one drop to show a microplastic particle.

Pale blue raindrops fall in front of a dark blue background. They splash down onto a greenish yellow umbrella. A close-up of one drop is shown in an image bubble. There is a tiny purple squiggle inside.

Shown is a colour photograph of four people next to a large machine that looks like a vacuum cleaner.

One person, in the foreground, on the left, is holding a long, thick silver pipe with a handle at the base. This is attached to a black hose that curls behind the group. This is attached to the top of a large blue structure, about twice the height of the people. On the side of this is a logo of a white circle with a blue water droplet in the centre. Nearby, a smaller blue, square object, on wheels, is printed with white letters that read Hoola One.

Shown is a black and white photograph of a young person looking straight into the camera. Dark liquid runs down her face. 

The photograph shows only half Autumn Peltier's face, set against a dark background. She is looking straight at the viewer. Thick dark liquid runs from both sides of her eye, down her cheek to her jaw and the corner of her lip. More liquid runs from under her bottom lip to her chin. A pale, circular earring hangs from her ear. Behind it, a braid wrapped in a strip of dark grey fabric falls down past the bottom edge of the photograph.

Shown is a colour photograph of five young people smiling and posing for the camera.

They are posing in the hallway of a building. Three people in front crouch or bend low, holding up the first two fingers of each hand in a V shape. Two people at the back stand upright with their arms crossed. All are smiling and looking into the camera.

Shown is a colour photograph of adults and children gathered around a picnic table, looking at fish.

The group is surrounded by forest. There are three adults on one side of the table, and four children on the other. Everyone is wearing gloves. On the table are four brightly coloured cutting boards. A large fish lies on each one. There are drawings of fish on both ends of the table. In the middle, there is one knife, and several other tools.