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1. Buy less and wear more. As the Fixing Fashion report says: “The most sustainable garment is the one we already own.”. Extending the active life of 50% of UK clothing by nine months would save: 8% carbon, 10% water, 4% waste per metric ton of clothing, according to WRAP’s Valuing Our Clothes report. 2.
Fast fashion has low prices but a high environmental cost, so tech enabling material to be recycled will be key in making the industry more sustainable. Climate Action Recycled material could help tackle many of fast fashion’s environmental problems.
Less than 1% of what is collected will be used to make new clothing. These trends are not only damaging the environment, they are limiting the opportunities for the fashion industry to succeed in the long-term. The industry already misses out on $560 billion in value from clothing being worn less and barely recycled.
First, we need to solve the issue from the supply side of fashion. More than 63% of existing textile fibre supply chains are accounted for by synthetics like polyester and acrylic. While they are cheaper than organic materials, synthetics are fossil-based, non-biodegradable and are challenging to recycle. A synthetic-heavy industry will also ...
How to fight fast fashion, by a Filipino social entrepreneur. On the outskirts of Manila in Payatas, residents live alongside a landfill site. In one of the biggest areas for urban poverty in the country, people have typically earned money from selling and recycling the junk left at the waste site. But local people, especially mothers who ...
Global sales of ‘pre-loved’ clothing look set to account for 10% of global fashion industry sales in 2024. Price and sustainability concerns and the growth of online retail have seen second-hand clothing sales soar in recent years. The World Economic Forum’s UpLink innovators are developing ways to boost the fashion industry’s circular ...
To combat the massive problem of clothing waste, fashion brands, authorities, collectors, recyclers and resale companies are working with the #WearNext campaign to collect donations from across the city, to give old clothes a new lease of life. The campaign is part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular initiative, which is ...
The industry is also responsible for 10% of annual global carbon emissions. Technology and the rapid digitization of the supply chain can make fashion more sustainable. Fashion has long been perceived as a major contributor to forest fires, rising sea levels, unfair wages, exploitation of labour and overflowing landfills.
Producing and consuming garments more sustainably could boost the global economy by almost $200 billion by 2030. However, this requires collective action by industry leaders, manufacturers and consumers. Textile and garment production and trade have expanded rapidly in the past two decades, driven by falling production costs and rising consumption.
Urgent action is needed to make the fashion industry more sustainable, according to two experts. A change in mindset is needed from consumers and producers. Broader, systemic change is also needed for fashion's business model. The global fashion industry has been labelled by many as unsustainable. Consider that, according to the United Nations ...