Fabric
"Fashion & clothing create more emissions than air & ship travel combined.
The issues:
- The fashion industry is responsible for 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions – more than international air and shipping travel combined.
- 80-100 billion items of clothing are made each year – but on average are worn only seven times. That will soon increase to 150 billion items.
- New Zealand sends about 100,000 tonnes of clothing to landfill each year – about 44kg per person.
- Textiles create about three times their weight in CO2 in landfill – so while they make up 5-6 per cent of landfill, they produce about 30 per cent of the carbon impacts.
- The T-shirt you don't wear any more also took two-and-a-half years of drinking water to produce."
That from a thought-provoking article: Govt biggest problem in "clothing carbon"
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Buying natural fibre fabrics will reduce the volume of non-biodegradable waste.
Fabric rolls and remnants are welcome at the ReUse Academy and secondhand/charity shops.
Huggable Hearts is a charity which recycles fabric and scraps into hearts for families grieving the loss of a baby.
Fabric unable to be refashioned into something else can be recycled through the SaveMart bins at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre and other locations around our region.
Please keep polyester/nylon fabric from landfill wherever possible.