{"id":30950,"date":"2023-01-02T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&p=30950"},"modified":"2023-01-02T08:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:25:40","slug":"shopping-sustainably-rana-hajirasouli","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/shopping-sustainably-rana-hajirasouli\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Expert Shares How To Shop Smarter In 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the New Year upon us, now is a great time to check in with yourself, reevaluate your habits, and create new goals for the future.\u00a0If one of your resolutions is to lower your carbon footprint, then learning how to shop fashion and beauty like a sustainability expert is a must for 2023.<\/p>\n

That’s why we spoke to Rana Hajirasouli, a climate-tech innovator and founder of The Surpluss<\/a>, an eco-conscious platform that’s helping businesses reform their relationship with resources and materials toward circularity. After identifying greenwashing as one of the main problems for conscious consumers, we asked Hajirasouli to share her tips for\u00a0<\/span>weighing up the sustainability credentials of beauty and fashion items listed as “green” or “sustainably sourced.” Here’s what she had to say.<\/p>\n

Rana\u00a0Hajirasouli<\/strong>: “There are certainly a few tricks of assessing any brands\u2019 sustainability credentials. I\u2019d always recommend asking the \u2018foundational five\u2019 questions:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Where does it come from? <\/span><\/h3>\n

This can help answer questions as to where it is made, and if the garment workers are working under fair labour practices. Many manufacturers have historically offshored their factories into developing countries where they can take advantage of cheap labour and a lack of safety practices. The Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh that killed over 1,000 garment workers gave rise to the sobering consequences of the conditions and the depth of involvement of large retailers, including Walmart & Primark.<\/span><\/p>\n

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