Understanding Your Fashion Footprint
Shopping preloved on Vestiaire Collective helps you avoid significant CO2 emissions compared to buying new. In 2025 alone, our collective gave 2.4 million items a second life. Together, we saved 60,000 tonnes of CO2e, which is equivalent to driving around the Earth’s equator 5,991 times.
This proves that each action you take - no matter how small - makes a big impact on our planet’s health. Thank you for helping us build a more circular fashion system. We're excited to see what you accomplish next.
Reducing Your Impact
Textile production is one of the top contributors to water use and greenhouse gas emissions, with new clothing production to blame for the majority of fashion's environmental footprint (from plastic pollution to high water consumption). That means every time you buy a new item, it comes with an environmental cost.
So, what can you do? When you choose preloved with Vestiaire Collective you avoid up to 90% of the environmental impact of buying new. In other words, you can shrink your carbon footprint up to 10 times...
Behind the Stats
Think shrinking your carbon footprint sounds too good to be true? Here's how it works:
When you buy a second-hand item, nothing new has been produced. That means fewer carbon emissions and significant water savings. Plus, you're preventing textile waste by keeping the item in circulation and diverting it from landfill and—eventually—incineration.
Our Collective Impact
Our community have been giving clothes a second life since 2009, preventing overproduction, avoiding overconsumption, and proving that the most sustainable piece you can buy is the one that already exists.
Together our Collective has avoided 300,000 tons of CO₂—with one fifth of that in 2024 alone. That's the equivalent of avoiding the environmental impact of more than 170,000 return flights from Paris to New York.