Fabric

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Education

"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"

See clothing

Reduce

Buying natural fibre fabrics will reduce the volume of non-biodegradable waste.

Reuse

Fabric rolls and remnants are welcome at the ReUse Academy and secondhand/charity shops. 

See bag, curtain

Recycle

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.

Disposal

Please keep polyester/nylon fabric from landfill wherever possible.