The textile/ fashion industry is a major contributor to greenhouse gases, water and air pollution, creates problematic levels of waste, and often comes with poor working conditions in other countries. So we are being urged to be much more ethical in our attitude to clothes buying. We should buy less, reuse and recycle, choose natural materials, as synthetics are less biodegradable and much more damaging to,the environment. So even if your old item of clothing is unwearable, please bag it up and mark as “ rags” and put in one of those textile bins. The charity gets some money for rags which are recycled not shoved into landfill. We buy too many clothes - 4 x more than we did 20 years ago, many of them never or hardly worn. This adds to the destruction of the planet, as much of it ends up in the ocean or the ground. It takes 10,000 litres of water to make one pair of jeans. I know this is a hard sell to many including myself as I have worked in the fashion industry, and especially to the instagram generation who will only wear an outfit once. Some environmental charities are urging people not to buy new clothes for a year -buy second hand or make them yourself, also never throw clothes “in the bin”- Could you rise to this challenge.?
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