Thanks to Jo Angell at Puff and Flock for writing up some notes of the Designing Out Landfill Conference that took place on June 15th. It seems some highlights of the morning presentations included some interesting statistics. Sophie Thomas, co-founder of Greengaged UK households produce over 25 million tonnes of waste every year. UK currently has 106 sq miles of landfill One pair of shoes takes 8,000 litres of water to make 1 computer requires 1.83 tons of raw materials to make Kresse Wesling, founder of E&KO Presented two case studies where 50% donated back to the material...
Garment Disposal
The nature of your garment is to fall apart?
Another interesting article taken from The Independent today, discussed some frustrations in dealing with products that not only fall apart, but are designed to fall apart. Thought it might be time for another poll. So, if your garment has a meltdown, what do you do? (polls)
feeling fashionably overweight?
The “Household Textile Environmental Impact Calculator” wants your closet to think about going on a diet. The calculator asseses you based on annual water usage, energy usage, use of non-renewable resources, and pollution. Unfortunately the calculator doesn’t account for non conventional fabrics, such as hemp. What is impressive however, is the fact that the calculator takes you through the lifecycle of your garments: purchasing, care, and disposal. The year is almost up, so Dec. marks a perfect time to start calculating and re-calculating to think about consumption practices for the year ahead. It doesn’t take long to calculate your annual...
