Monthly Archives September 2019

Stacey Dooley Investigates Fast Fashion

It’s funny how when you begin to look at something, all of a sudden everyone seems to be looking at it! Only 2 weeks ago S4S prepared a PowerPoint presentation to launch the Second-hand and Ethical workshop series happening at Krowji in Cornwall. One of the slides showed a photograph of the devastating environmental impact of over farmed land for cotton, namely the Aral Sea Basin. The Aral Sea is the world’s largest endorheic lake which sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and has been intensively farmed for cotton for the fast fashion industry. Poor irrigation and land management has tragically
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Parliament is Looking at Sustainable Fashion and the Environment

The Environmental Audit Committee is a Parliamentary body that has been established to investigate the social and environmental impact of disposable ‘fast fashion’ and the wider clothing industry. The inquiry is scrutinising the environmental cause and effect of carbon, resource use and water footprint of clothing throughout its lifecycle. It will explore the possibilities of how clothing can be recycled, and waste and pollution reduced. A panel of experts meet in Parliament to continue discussion specifically about the problematic effects of microfibres leached into our water tables through continual laundering of synthetic and man made fibres. This important meeting can
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Cotton Dyeing – A New Innovation for Good?

Recently a relatively new company ColorZen® was given the Innovation Award at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. This was for their leading edge technology which allows cotton fibre to absorb dye much quicker with less toxic waste produced. With water pollution and resource consumption being the biggest issue surrounding cotton production, this could be a major leap forward in changing the old existing unsustainable and toxic colouration methods for this globally loved fibre. The Manhattan based company is headed by CEO Michael Harari who came from a real estate background to join his father’s textile manufacturing interests. According to an interview with
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S4S Project Deliver Paper PSA Conference Event

Today at Nottingham Trent University, members of the the S4S project team, led by Prof Clare Saunders will attend the 69th Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual International Conference event to represent the Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing project by delivering a paper about the findings so far revealed by the research the project has done. The three day event titled, ‘(Un)Sustainable Politics in a Changing World’ will cover themes ranging from the topical hotbed of Brexit related issues through to environmentalism, youth politics, misogyny and gender. The paper can be read here…
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Fashion Revolution’s Consumer Survey Report Released

This month Fashion Revolution, the global advocates for making the fashion industry and it’s workers rights sustainable, ethical and fair, released it’s 2018 Consumer Survey Report. The downloadable PDF comes in two formats, 1. The Full Report and 2. The Results – so there’s something for everyone here and that people with all levels of interest can pick up something useful and meaningful to them. The release of the report coincides with the co-founder and Global Operations Director, Carry Somers making an appearance on British TV show BBC’s Breakfast, saying “Transparency is key. If we can’t see what’s happening, then we can’t
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