String Together. Historic Futures. The greatest component of the environmental impact of a product is often not its use, but its production. In some cases the global value chain can account for up to 80% of the total impact. While it is clear that this will vary significantly from one product to another, it seems logical that the process of making something can use more resources and affect more systems than using it. Take bread. Growing, harvesting and milling wheat, then mixing it with other ingredients (which each have their own upstream value-chain) to form dough, and baking that into a loaf needs more resources and interacts with more systems than eating it – or leaving it to go mouldy in the cupboard and then throwing it away.
However, this estimation looks very different for something like a washing machine or a car. Much work has been done to estimate the environmental impact of products, perhaps most significantly on the energy required throughout the product life-cycle. Is collecting accurate value chain data a 'wicked' problem? CoutureSqd: Rent Clothes Affordably. The Netflix for Fashion.
MADE-BY.org | MADE-BY. Making sustainable fashion common practice. Workshop: Creating Sustainable Change but Maintaining ‘Fashion’ | MADE-BY.org. Workshop: Creating Sustainable Change but Maintaining ‘Fashion’ Globalcitizen. See Through Fashion. Why Bangladesh? In April, Bangladesh suffered what is being called its "most deadly factory collapse in its history. " The Rana Plaza disaster killed over 1100 men and women and injured thousands more. The ready-to-use-and-abuse garment industry in Bangladesh makes up a whopping 80% Bangladesh's exports. Making it third largest exporter of garments across the world. Bangladesh garment workers are the worst paid in the world. Bangladesh garment workers make a considerable amount of clothing for British retailers, many of whom were directly or indirectly linked to the factory collapse. Impact The textile industry is the largest employer in Bangladesh. A recent doubling of Bangladeshi wages has lifted many to the cusp of the extreme poverty line.
These workers deserve and need our support. Safe Conditions Our want for fashion should not come at the price of others. Transparency The Bangladesh Safety Accord begins this process by requiring all signees to public their supply chains. Decent Pay.
Sophie Mather. Concentrating on product and people in a sustainable world. Sustainable innovation focusing on the aspects of commercializing sustainable product. Inspiration and communication focusing on the people and teams that will make this happen. Sustainable Innovation - it's all about commercial sustainable product. Inspiration & Communication – about inspiring people to make a difference.
I like to call this toe dipping. With the inspiration and information gained from workshops, tools and presentations, your teams ideas, can be given life through facilitated discussion and brainstorming. Workshops to inspire, engaging your teams to think differently. With a fresh set of eyes, a more strategic view of your company's 'bigger picture' can be formulated. As part of the sustainability journey, evaluation is key to assessing where things have been successful or need to be changed in order to strengthen and move forwards.
Presentations and training tools, home-in on areas for in-depth training. Facts and Figures about clothes collections | Clothes Aid. Environmental facts The energy required to collect, process and sell a reused item of clothing is only 2 per cent of the energy required to manufacture a new garment. 1 The clothing and textile sector in the UK is responsible for more than 3 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. 1 Annually the UK consumes 2.16 million tonnes of clothing and textile products and spends approximately £38.4 billion on clothing. 2 Of the textiles that are discarded to the householder waste bin, nationally 43% is reusable. 2 Approximately 1.5 to 2 million tonnes of clothing and textile waste is generated in the UK each year, of which 1.2 million tonnes (63%) is currently disposed of to landfill. 2 2 million tonnes of textile waste (inc. clothing, carpets and footwear) is generated annually (of which approx 1 million is clothing). 2 24% (523k tonnes) is collected for reuse and recycling in the UK and overseas. 2 1.
Bogus clothes collections 1. SustainAbility | Independent think tank and strategy consultancy. Sustain Ltd - A leading sustainability company delivering tangible results via carbon, energy, water and waste efficiencies. - Sustain. FASHIONmeGREEN - Where style goes green. About | Fashioning Change ® - Do Good Fashion. Share Your invites were sent. Thanks so much for sharing! To multiply your impact. Give friends $10 off their first purchase - and you will get $10 after it ships! Share now. Fashioning Change is an online marketplace for stylish, money saving, nontoxic, and sweatshop free apparel and accessories.
It’s our mission to create access to brands and products that are fashionable, that are proud to share every detail in their supply-chain, and that use your purchase to protect health, protect the Earth, protect human rights, and to give back in another way. We’re all about good style, good vibes, and good living. Fashion Capital | The Factory - The Factory The Factory – British Based Manuf... | Factory, Fashion, Manufacturing, Students,
The Factory is a 7,500 square foot premises that can output over 7,500 units a week. The Factory’s services include; pattern making and cutting, toiling, first-fit sampling and mass production. Our team of highly skilled pattern cutters and machinists can manufacture all soft separates in woven and jersey plus tailored items. Key clients at The Factory include: online retail giant - ASOS.com to high street chain Marks & Spencer, alongside a selection of British based designers. The mezzanine level at The Factory is also the base for the ASOS & FashionCapital ‘Stitching Academy’ which provides a route into a National Apprenticeship that previously did not exist in fashion for young people. At the Stitching Academy students will have the opportunity to complete a Level 1 qualification in Stitching Skills after completing a six-week internship, during which their daily expenses will be covered.
Situated in Crusader Estate The Factory is run by Chris Toumba and assisted by Caroline Ash.
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