Green Fashion was never meant to mean recycled plastic. Green means returning to the earth without harm. Green means systems that sustain life, not extract from it. Somewhere along the way, fashion replaced truth with marketing.
Many vegan materials are still petroleum-based. Plastic, polyurethane, synthetics designed to mimic leather… They may spare animals, but they don’t disappear when we’re done with them.
They shed. They persist. They accumulate.