Air pollution has many different causes, including burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, as well as agriculture, volcanic eruptions, industrial processes and solvent use. The causes can be divided into two major groups. We have anthropogenic causes, for example exhaust fumes from cars and factories, as well as smoke from cigarettes. And we have natural causes. Namely, nature in turn also causes pollution in the form of entrained dust and sea salt aerosols. However, one of the biggest causes of air pollution is waste disposal. We, as humans, live in a disposable society. We go to the shop, fruits and vegetables there are packed separately in plastic bags. We go shopping and get a new plastic bag with our purchase. We order those new trousers or jumper. This arrives in a plastic bag with a barcode on it. Afterwards, all that packaging ends up in the bin. If we sorted them correctly in the first place and didn't just throw them into nature. This creates masses of huge mountains of waste, which have to be processed and/or incinerated. (World Health Organization: WHO, 2019) 

 In other words, the fashion industry plays a big role in this story. On the one hand, we have the waste products emitted by the textile factories and, on the other, we have the huge mountain of plastic, which is used to package a parcel on, for example, zalando. However, the bags you get when buying in the shop also increase this mountain.