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Waste in Fashion
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Our clothes are getting cheaper, they follow fashion
more rapidly and we’re buying more and more
of them. At the same time we hear more about
poor working conditions in textiles factories, the growing threat of the greenhouse effect
andthe UK facing a crisis in disposing of its
waste.
What
do you know about waste
in the fashion industry?
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a) $1million
b) $1trillion
c) $1billion
Question 1: How much do the world’s consumers spend on
fashion and textiles each year?
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Answer: C. $1trillion
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Question 2 : How much of the UK’s textiles and clothing is actually
manufactured (made) in Britain?
a. 25%
b. 75%
c. 20%
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Answer: C.
20%... that’s
only a fifth!
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Question 3: We export 281 thousand tonnes of textile products to the global market each year. But how much do
we import?
a) More
b) Less
c) The same
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Answer: AThe UK imports a whopping 1,700 thousand tonnes of
clothing annually. That’s more than 6 times more than we export!
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FACT:
In 2004 the UK imported
approximately 460 million T-shirts…
that’s over seven each.
This statistic gets even scarier when
you realise that each t-shirt has
probably been in 3 different
countries during its production – the
air miles alone are staggering!
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Question 3: How much water do you think is wasted through the
clothes and textiles industry each year in the UK?
a) 70 million tonnes
b) 100 million tonnes
c) 10 million tonnes
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Answer: C
The UK fashion & textile industry wastes
70 million tonnes of water, with a further
90 million tonnes of water used in the
production process. In addition to this
the industry is responsible for 3.1 million
tonnes of CO2 (carbon) emissions and 1.5
million tonnes of solid waste in the form
of discarded and unused threads, fabrics
and clothes.
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Consumers in the UK spend about
£780 per head on clothing per year,
purchasing around 2.15 million
tonnes (that’s the equivalent of
more than 10,000 Angel of the North
sculptures - weighing 200 tonnes
each!)
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Question 4: How much of this do
you think gets given to charities?
a. 12.5% - an eighth
b. 33% - a third
c. 50% - half
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Answer: AOnly a measly 1/8 of our reusable textiles and clothing gets given to
charities*… UNCHARITABLE?!
* Source: http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainability/projects/mass/UK_textiles.pdf
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Question 5: So what happens to the rest of it?
a) People get creative and make their own clothes or curtains?
b) It is recycled by local councils?
c) It gets disposed of in landfills?
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Answer: C 74% gets disposed of in LANDFILLS.
IT’S THROWN AWAY!
That’s 30kg per person- or 120 t-shirts
each!
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So think: how
wasteful are
you?