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Can Circular Fashion Make You a Better Person?
We live in a world of ever-growing fashion with trends that are constantly changing, therefore this fast fashion creates so much waste costing the economy billions every year, but could these costs be cut by returning clothing back to the retailer after use? Could you be a better person and help towards reducing fashion waste by returning garments after use? Here we will explore the wonderful world of circular fashion. Where does Fashion Waste come from? 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions comes from fashion and it’s the second largest water consumer in the world. To make one pair of jeans, it takes 2,000 gallons of water. This water waste…
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Can Circular Fashion Help YOU Become More Sustainable This Lockdown?
The facts The UK is currently in a national lockdown. Pyjamas have almost become a work uniform for those stuck at home under government guidelines. Recently, Boris Johnson set out his plan to ease the nation out of lockdown restrictions. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement, reports have shown that fashion companies have received significant sales boosts of up to 75% following the news. Many are readying themselves for the ‘new normal.’ To re-enter the world again, people are wanting a new wardrobe. Yet, clothes go in and out of style. We know this. The clothes we purchase for our potential summer of freedom we may not even want next year.…
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Be More Circular
The main question you’re probably wondering is what is circular fashion? Why does this affect me? What can I do to help? ‘Circular fashion’ was first brought into this world by Dr Anna Brismar, Green Strategy. She defined it as: “clothes, shoes or accessories that are designed, sourced, produced, and provided with the intention to be used and circulated responsibly”. The main idea for the motion is to try and help reduce the amount of textile waste that ends up in a landfill, which currently lies at a worth of around £140 million. It aims to disrupt the usually linear journey of clothing which has its end of life at…
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Rolling Up in Circular Fashion…
One day, I looked in my wardrobe and I was overwhelmed by the large amount of clothes I never wear staring back at me. Some of these items I had only worn a few times so why put them to waste? Every year I go through my clothes and pick out anything that I think I could upcycle into a new unique item (I’m no seamstress but I do my best!) and anything else, I give to charity or pass on to my friends. This is just a small example of circular fashion. If you’re bored of your old wardrobe, this is for you! What is Circular Fashion? Circular fashion…
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The Fashion Sphere of ‘Vinted’
With the turning of the New Year, it’s hard to resist the appetite to re-organise and re-stock our wardrobes. If you’re like me, then heading straight to the Google search box is the first call to action. It seems like the easy option, precise, direct and cuts the hassle. However, with everyone advancing on the closet resolution how much clothing waste will we expect to see pile up before new season collections start materialising on the refreshed pages of fashion retail websites? The answer is too much. Analysing the circular economy, WRAP UK estimated that £140 million worth of clothing is sent to landfill every year – so it’s time…
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Easy Steps to a Circular Fashion Economy
In the 21st century, fashion is an endless cycle of buy, wear, waste. In fact, the average consumer throws away 70 pounds (31.75kg) every single year, making the fashion industry the second most polluting in the world – but it doesn’t have to be that way. Whilst we all want to upgrade our wardrobes, there’s no need for the harmful pollution it creates in the process. Fast fashion is a modern-day phenomenon, enabling clothing companies to mass-produce, manufacture and market garments that follow the latest fashion trends and allow consumers to level-up their style for cheap. Though this may not sound terrible, the true cost must be considered – textile…
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How the Idea of Circular Jeans became a Reality?
Why does the Fashion Industry need to change? In today’s fashion industry, the phenomenon ‘fast fashion’ has become increasingly popular amongst well-known brands because it provides them with a quick turnaround of new styles, increasing the number of collections offered to them in a year, resulting in lower prices. However, this idea of ‘fast fashion’ is not good for the economy in the long run because it leads to an environmental disaster. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have calculated “the fashion industry produces 10% of global carbon dioxide emissions every year, while it is estimated to use around 1.5 trillion litres of water annually.” The problem of this is…
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To Buy or Not to Buy – the Concept of Circular Fashion
Over the recent years, the detrimental effect on the environment exerted by the fashion industry, overproduction of clothes, and, consequently, consumerism, has been commonly addressed in the media. For this reason, a community that is making new sustainable purchases on an ongoing basis without potentially threatening the environment deals with no guilt. It is even considered a manifesto of some sort or, in some cases, a sacrifice. What is this about? I am referring to a quite novel concept called circular fashion. “Circular fashion can be defined as clothes, shoes or accessories that are designed, sourced, produced and provided with the intention to be used and circulate responsibly and effectively…
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Circular Fashion For Dummies
Our Mother Earth is in dire need of our help, with pollution, waste, and climate change. There is only little time for us to alter our lifestyle for the better. The fashion industry itself represents 10% of humanity’s carbon emissions, where 85% of textiles go to the dump each year. Guess what? Circular fashion can help. With clothing production doubling since 2000, sustainability has never been more important to the fashion industry. In recent years, there has been an explosion of continuous efforts to improve the sustainability and circularity of textiles. Actions that can help to limit environmental impacts are pollution control, enhanced recycling practices and innovation around the reuse…
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Unlocking a Billion Dollar Opportunity
Approximately 85% of textiles end up in landfills each year, which is the equivalent of 31.5 million truckloads. The scariest part – clothing produced by fast fashion, that has only been used for less than one year, makes up a huge part of those numbers. You are now probably asking the same question as many others have before. What can the industry do to stop this? And why are we not moving away from the current linear fashion system’s take-make-dispose model? What is Circular Fashion? Good news: the fashion industry has actually started to realise just how urgently the world needs change and what could hopefully outgrow, or even replace,…
