The fashion industry is contributing to a decline in soil health in a variety of ways. Soil is a family of microbes and plants impacted by the carbon-nitrogen ratio and petroleum contaminants. The healthy soil microbes will be dormant or replaced by other baleful microbes in incorrectly unbalanced carbon-nitrogen soil. Specifically, the fashion industry contaminates soil by: discarding synthetic, non-degradable materials into landfill. The soil will gradually lose its bioremediation ability until it becomes barren meaning that there will be less land for crops and grazing after abuse.