Fashion industry getting a hard time in the news today

[Chris F]

Makes a difference from farmers being blamed. One stat that surprised me, is that new garments are worn on average of 3 times only in China. A climate emergency is being stated.

I still have T-Shirts from 20 years ago!

No mention of using wool as a sustainable material though.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I still have T-Shirts from 20 years ago!

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You wanna try wearing them now n again

 

[br jones]

It was written that behind the oil industry, the fashion is the 2nd biggest contributor to climate change/global warming

 

[Campbell]

IT/ Computer servers are also also a major source of global warming. The throw away fashion industry is insane, but it keeps our towns cities in business every Saturday.

 

[melted welly]

Fashion and domestic pet industries should get far more scrutiny. Neither are necessities.

 

[kiwi pom]

Makes a difference from farmers being blamed. One stat that surprised me, is that new garments are worn on average of 3 times only in China. A climate emergency is being stated.

I still have T-Shirts from 20 years ago!

No mention of using wool as a sustainable material though.

Its just the media moving on, trying to put fresh content out there to keep themselves in jobs.
Before farmers it was supermarkets and plastic bags destroying the planet, now it seems air travel and perhaps fashion are moving into the spotlight.

Ignore them, they'll go away, arguing just makes it worse.

 

[fgc325j]

Makes a difference from farmers being blamed. One stat that surprised me, is that new garments are worn on average of 3 times only in China. A climate emergency is being stated.

I still have T-Shirts from 20 years ago!

No mention of using wool as a sustainable material though.

I saw the item on the news this am, where they stated that the discarded clothing usually contains
50% cotton. I remember reading somewhere that of all the crops grown, it's cotton which requires
the most number of chemical sprays whilst growing??

 

[Exfarmer]

I saw the item on the news this am, where they stated that the discarded clothing usually contains
50% cotton. I remember reading somewhere that of all the crops grown, it's cotton which requires
the most number of chemical sprays whilst growing??

It certainly is true of non GM cotton

 

[oil barron]

IT/ Computer servers are also also a major source of global warming. The throw away fashion industry is insane, but it keeps our towns cities in business every Saturday.

By 2025 25% of all of America’s power use will be for data centers which is insane. But cloud computing has got too much momentum to go back.

 

[Guiggs]

Maybe they can start running the AD plants on old clothing rather than landfilling it

 

[delilah]

Maybe they can start running the AD plants on old clothing rather than landfilling it

This is the problem with modern ie synthetic clothing it's a nightmare to do anything useful with. We used to collect unsold clothing from jumble sales and sell to a textile merchant, he explained that things got so much worse once lycra began to be used in everything as it is so tough it snags the shears they use to cut clothes up to make shoddy.

One presumes that Goldsmiths will be telling the new intake that they have to wear hemp clothing, to be consistent with their beef ban ?

 

[Paddington]

We home recycle old clothes, socks for lagging pipes, old T shirts and sweat shirts make lamb jackets and the dog's bedding consists of old fleece jackets. Old but watertight wellies are used for zinc sulphate footbaths for lame ewes, old shirts for cleaning cloths, nothing goes to waste unless it has more holes than material.

 

[Cowabunga]

Makes a difference from farmers being blamed. One stat that surprised me, is that new garments are worn on average of 3 times only in China. A climate emergency is being stated.

I still have T-Shirts from 20 years ago!

No mention of using wool as a sustainable material though.

I have brown trousers from about 15 years ago that are regularly worn. Several pairs. They are now a sort of bleached white/magnolia and I wear them for work. The material is now very thin and I ripped another pair at the knee last week, so I may be down to my last one. I was aiming to get a few more years yet out of them, but its not to be, although the ones I'm wearing today seem to have some more thickness of material left. Must have worn each one for several hundred days and dozens of washes.
Shirts last nearly as long, although I was disappointed to see tiny holes in front of a fairly new one this summer. Then I remembered that I must have been wearing it when I charged a new quad bike's battery with acid. Be careful out there, battery acid is powerful stuff!

From this you can probably tell that I am not at the leading edge of fashionistas but can probably claim to be more 'environmentally friendly' and 'ecologically sustainable' than average.

 

[Agrivator]

We home recycle old clothes, socks for lagging pipes, old T shirts and sweat shirts make lamb jackets and the dog's bedding consists of old fleece jackets. Old but watertight wellies are used for zinc sulphate footbaths for lame ewes, old shirts for cleaning cloths, nothing goes to waste unless it has more holes than material.

How do you stop them loosing their wellies as they run out of the sheep pens? Apart from that. it's tremendous idea.

 

[Paddington]

How do you stop them loosing their wellies as they run out of the sheep pens? Apart from that. it's tremendous idea.

Only for one foot, they actually stand better than using a bucket when they kick the stuff in your face.

 

[SLA]

Recycling “Old but watertight wellies”
They get worn till they leak, then add plastic bag/bags till the new ones turn up.....?
Old socks make the best dog toys, tie in knots for a pull toy or bundle together to make a sock ball

 

[Agrivator]

I was brought up wearing nothing but hand-down clothes.

The trouble was, I had no older brothers: just three older sisters.

 

[Chris F]

You wanna try wearing them now n again

They are in the pile “hopefully will fit me again one day”

 

[Cowabunga]

I was brought up wearing nothing but hand-down clothes.

The trouble was, I had no older brothers: just three older sisters.

So you wear thongs?

 

[choochter]

Oxfam have an awareness thing going just now - Second Hand September.

Every week 11 million items of clothing end up in landfill. Throwaway fashion is putting increasing pressure on our planet and its people - it’s unsustainable. Now there's something we can do to help. We can join Second Hand September and pledge to say no to new clothes for 30 days.

https://oxfamapps.org/secondhandseptember/