SHEIN, the fast fashion empire that sells toxic clothing and pollutes the environment.

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Many of the toxic elements that you can find in SHEIN clothes are, for example, from high levels of lead that, in some children's clothes, contain 20 times more than the maximum tolerated capacity for each person, how can someone be so evil, like a fast fashion giant emporium like SHEIN has the need to put elements like lead, it's easy, it's another way of carrying out the 2030 agenda.

Lead-free paints have been heralded as the great panacea for a long time and it turns out that fast fashion giants like SHEIN continue to use lead, simply to give us dirt-cheap clothes, but at a cost that is extremely lethal.

Everything exploded last year due to a report from CBC Canada and an article from greenpeace.org that summarize all the toxicity contained in clothing from not only the SHEIN brand but many other brands.

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The damage is only for people but for the environment, and most of these studies talk about the consequences of what is known as new or virgin polyester, producing this new polyester for SHEIN offerings among many others, is responsible for at least 10% of carbon dioxide emissions on the entire planet, we are talking about the equivalent of 100 million tons of oil every year, not counting what everyone already knows is that this fast fashion that produces tons of and tons of garbage of clothes with all these toxic dyes, in deserts, in the open fields. Etc.

At the end of the day, the toxic dyes that these garments contain contain high levels of lead and other substances, they end up being drained into the groundwater table and those chemicals remain forever; or they are very difficult to remove; The same happens in our bodies with the chemicals called "chemicals forever" because once they enter our bloodstream you will not remove them, not even by doing hemodialysis.

This same study reveals that the impact of mega-companies like SHEIN is equivalent to the same pollution produced by more than 180 Coal power plants and considering that Coal power plants are the most polluting on the planet, in short, SHEIN pollutes the equivalent to 180 power plants and there you have the environmental cost or just part of the environmental cost of fast fashion giants like SHEIN.

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Every year 39 thousand tons are discarded in the world, that is, many people renewing their entire wardrobe, with the new fast fashions from SHEIN, which every day are releasing between 750 and 1000 models daily, since they maintain a captive audience because all the the days they need are checking to see what things are coming out.

Not all SHEIN clothes cause cancer, the problem of using these substances depends on the concentration, the toxicity in your body, it depends on how much you use them, it depends on your genetics, it depends on many factors. Not all SHEIN clothes contain these elements, the problem is that many do, and you don't know what the clothes contain and you're going to literally risk it.

The advantage that physical stores have is that the regulations for sales are much stronger, while online stores like SHEIN, which is their forte, regulations are much lower.

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The Canadian Ministry of Health undertook an in-depth study of many of the SHEIN garments, finding many dangerously toxic elements for humans; it turns out that almost half of a batch contained high levels of toxicity, that exposure to lead for example, what can cause you is precisely infertility problems, health problems in the brain, problems in the kidneys, the blood system and the nervous system and even low-level exposure that can have deleterious effects on the development of children, while lead poisoning can cross the placenta in pregnant women.

Other scientific studies carried out in Canada on SHEIN garments have also shown that exposure to these high levels of lead from many of SHEIN garments cause people to vomit, diarrhoea, convulsions, coma and even death, we are not just talking about this. from a simple allergy, we are talking about lethal consequences.

And when it comes to children in children's clothing that contain these elements or toxic concentrations such as high levels of lead in the blood cause learning problems, hyperactivity, delayed growth, hearing problems and anemia.

In summary, I am wary of what is excessively cheap, behind that cheap price there is labor exploitation, on many occasions forced child labor, but there are also elements that are not good for health, that to lower the cost of paints, they use things that they are toxic.

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