Hello everyone! I am Yan, a recent graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental sciences and engineering. I am now volunteering in Clean Air Carolina at an advocate. I am very PASSIONATE about the consumptionism and its environmental impacts and planning an education and outreach project. Would like to share with you guys. Anyone interested in joining me? Or just want to hang out in this area and talk about the environment, or... puppies? 
I can’t recall how many times I saw people hauling clothes from fast fashion stores such as H&M, Forever 21. I also used to love buying full basket of clothes when I go to mall, because they are cheap and pretty. But not after 2 years, because of their poor quality, we throw them away or donate them. However, because of there are just too many of these clothes, local thrift stores only accept small part of the clothes; only 1% of the clothes can be recycled by textile recyclers. The problems caused by this overdress trends are relevant to all kinds of environmental and social issues. Behind the fast fashion chain, there are sweat shops, air and water pollution and climate change...that most people aren't aware of. 
I also want to invite anyone interested to join this project and work together, most importantly, let’s have fun and make the changes we want to see!
Thanks so much for introducing yourself and sharing the project you are working on! I look forward to following along and encourage you to consider applying to have your project certified when you are aready. If you have any questions about the process don't hesitate to reach out to me!
All the best,
Courtney
NWF EcoLeader Community Manager
I think a blog would be a great idea. Is part of your outreach campaign to direct people to second-hand or thrift stores? There are a few online that could be researched and written about so that instead of buying new clothes, they could reuse. What do you think?
Laci
Thanks for your ideas. Posting blogs is very good way to start :) There are many local thrift stores that I want to interview for, write about their sustainability stories.
It's also very important to direct people to go to thrift stores, clothes swap events instead of shopping at fast fashion stores. Many times, I have found that people don't know what services they, so I want to introduce these clothes-reuse resources.
Best,
Yan
