Fashion waste
There
are over 7 billion people on this planet. 7 billion! If you count one number a
second without stopping until you reach a billion, you’d be counting for 31
years, 259 days, 1 hour, and 46 minutes, and 40 seconds. That’s how much a billion
is.
If
each person owned only one pair of pants, one shirt, and one jacket, that would
be 21 billion articles of clothing. If you were to count each of those, one per
second, it would take nearly 672 years. That’s a lot of clothes! And it’s safe
to assume that many of us own more than three items of apparel.
Given
that there are so many of us, and clothes are one of the three basic needs, the
statistics surrounding the textile and fashion industry are nothing short of
staggering.
Most of the fashion that we wear ends up as landfill, as people don't think about our 'throw away' habit as consumers
But….Waste is so last season:
So, which textiles can be recycled and
how?
“The key differentiation is between
‘mechanical fibre recycling’, which will degrade with each recycling
(down-cycling) and ‘chemical fibre recycling’ which in some cases can produce
fibres of equal quality to virgin ones” explains senior research fellow,
Textiles Environment Design, Kate Goldsworthy.
Mechanical recycling of natural fibres
like cotton and wool is currently the most scalable
recycling technology for post-consumer textiles To increase quality,
recycled fibres must be blended with virgin fibres.
So you can recycle wool, this is one of its amazing properties!!
WOOL is an amazing fibre that can have a second life, with a little imagination and care
Check out these awesome WOOL fashion links
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