Textile waste

Cute, affordable clothes have never been easier to find — but the knock-offs you bought for Christmas are creating a huge environmental impact.

Used or surplus clothing from Western countries often ends up in Africa. Whether that’s good remains open to question.

There is a growing trend within the sustainability community towards upcycling, by taking waste materials and giving them purpose by turning them into something more usable. In order to prevent more waste & pollution from being created, upcycling materials is one of the best (and craftiest)

Fast Fashion’s Graveyard A documentary film by Ian Berry - COMING SOON - Artist Ian Berry makes a documentary about the clothes waste in the Atacama Desert in Chile named Fast Fashion’s Graveyard -&

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Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.

The Acoustic Felt is a sound absorber made from 100% traceable, upcycled textile waste brought to market by award-winning design studio Form Us With Love and their venture BAUX.

You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true.

The environmental cost of fast fashion. These images, taken by photographer @martinbernetti_photojournalist, show at least 39,000 tons of clothes dumped in Chile's Atacama Desert. The items are largely waste from the fast fashion industry. "These textile scraps come from all over the world and the problem is that the clothes are not biodegradable and contain chemicals, so they are not accepted in municipal landfills." According to the World Economic Forum, the fashion industry produces 10%…

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that around a truckload of textile waste goes into open landfill or is incinerated every second. What little lifestyle changes make we all make to help counteract this? 1) Buy less. 2) Wear your items for longer. 3) Swap clothing. 4) Mend your clothing. 5) Upcycle clothing. 6) Buy second hand. #knotwaste #RepairReuseUpcycle #MendYourFuture #Sustainability #ethicalfashion #ecofashion #slowfashion #Slowdown #ChooseConsciously #MindfulFashion

Did you know that 92 million tons of textiles are discarded every year? That’s enough to fill the entire Empire State Building, create a… | Instagram

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.