{"id":27833,"date":"2016-07-13T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/can-technology-help-fashion-clean-up-its-act"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:19:58","slug":"can-technology-help-fashion-clean-up-its-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/can-technology-help-fashion-clean-up-its-act","title":{"rendered":"Can technology help fashion clean up its act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-technology-help-fashion-clean-up-its-act.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech making fashion industry cleaner and greener.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Suzanne+Mancini%22\">Suzanne Mancini<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&channel=news&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Rhode+Island+School+of+Design%22\">Rhode Island School of Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy.<\/p>\n<p>The fashion industry is no different. Technology has helped the industry meet growing demand by making production more efficient. At the same time, vast overproduction \u2013 propelled by fast fashion\u2019s demands for new styles \u2013 has led to a host of additional problems: increased chemical waste during production, along with thousands of tons of waste from worn, discarded or donated clothes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Can-technology-help-fashion-clean-up-its-act-8355663.php\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Can-technology-help-fashi...355663.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech making fashion industry cleaner and greener. Suzanne Mancini, Rhode Island School of Design Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy. The fashion industry is no different. Technology has helped the industry meet growing demand by making production more efficient. At the same time, vast overproduction \u2013 propelled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50159,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions\/50159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}