[142] THE IMPACT OF FASHION AND PLANS TO HALVE IT – WITH WRAP

Clothes - we all wear them, and we're getting through clothes at a faster rate than ever before. Clothing production has doubled globally between 2000 and 2015, and it's estimated that fashion accounts for around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions (for context, aviation is around 2-5%).

Some of these clothes are only worn a handful of times (some even just once, or maybe even never) before being discarded, contributing to huge amounts of waste.

Tune into this chat with Sam Gillick-Daniels - Sustainable Development Researcher and lead analyst at WRAP - a climate action NGO working globally with government, businesses and citizens to tackle the climate crisis.

Tune in to find out:

• What the circular economy is, why we need it, and how that applies to textiles
• What happens to our clothes when we no longer want or need them
• Different models for making the textiles industry less resource intensive
• WRAP's plan to halve the environmental impact of our clothes by 2030 
• How we as citizens and wearers of clothes can help to reduce the footprint of fashion and more 

Enjoy!

• WRAP
  - Website
  - Twitter
  - Linked In
  - Recycle Now
  - Love Food Hate Waste
  - Love Your Clothes
  - Textiles 2030
• Discarded fast fashion piling up in Chile
• Mud Jeans
• Levi's circular model
• The Little Loop
  - Podcast episode with Charlotte from The Little Loop
• [076] - Reducing the footprint of your shoeprint with ReVivo
• Fixing Fashion - Environmental Audit Committee report
• Talking Climate Carbon Literacy  course
• The Sustainable(ish) FB group