Are you in the process of trying to buy a fur coat or a fur product? Then you will be all too aware of the debate. Fur has become one of the most commonly debated parts of the fashion industry today – a massive talking point that can seem confusing in the extreme. If you are new to the discussion, you might see Faux Fur being described as the ‘ethical’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ choice. But is this true?

It depends on what angle you look at. While faux fur involves no animals being harmed in their creation, it also has another problem: the creation process is environmentally damaging. Most of the ingredients in faux fur are man-made and synthetic. This involves chemical and manufacturing processes that have an environmental impact. The main issue, though, is the time that it will take a faux fur product to break down. Given a faux fur product will last for a fraction of the time that a real fur product does, is this a problem?

Many within the industry have found that the main problem isn’t so much the here-and-now, but the consequences decades from now. Why? Because faux fur does not degrade at anything like the same pace.

Faux fur is shown to take much longer to break down than real fur products

Buy a real fur coat, and you could really get decades of happiness to wear out of that coat before it is in need of replacement. Buy a faux fur coat, though, and you could soon be looking at a coat that needs repaired, replaced, or binned within a few short years. The materials are not as sturdy as real fur, they degrade much faster, and they, therefore, need to be thrown into a landfill site much quicker than a real product.

Outside of the years of actual usage that you get, it comes down to the erosion factor as well. Put fake fur products into a landfill site, and it will exceed the lifespan of a real fur coat by at least one hundred years. That might sound good, but the coat was out of wearable condition many years ago – it now takes many years to break down due to the materials used to build the coat in the first place.

This means that it could lie there degrading in a landfill site for many years, taking up valuable space. Also, the materials used to make such a coat often means that it could have a detrimental impact on the land once it has finally broken down to its essential form.

Cared for properly, you could hand over a real fur coat to a family member or friend and still have it in prime condition years after the purchase. When was the last time, though, you heard of someone passing on a fake fur coat or a fake fur accessory? 

It’s unheard of because the only places that gets longevity out of faux fur products are dumps and landfill sites. While there are genuine ethical issues within the fur industry, there is no guarantee that the ‘healthier’ fake fur industry is going to be any better – arguably worse – for the environment as the decades roll by.

We know what to expect from real fur – can we truthfully say that about the alternative? 

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