If you must know, 'green' stockings are fashion's new cool and sexy

Fashion brands are now offering biodegradable stockings that decompose relatively quickly at the end of their lifespans. Photo: AFP

Jeans are often singled out as the most polluting garments in our closets, but stockings also generate mountains of waste, which is devastating for the planet.

It's a problem that the fashion industry is gradually addressing with recycling, returns schemes and, more recently, materials that decompose at their end of lifespan.