News & Blogs The most sustainable fashion choice you can make may already be in your wardrobe Share it! Facebook X-twitter Pinterest Linkedin Envelope-open-text Every year in the UK, we throw away a staggering amount of clothing. Between 300,000 and 350,000 tonnes of used clothing are sent to landfill or incinerated annually. That equates to roughly one billion garments. On average, each person discards around 7 kilograms of clothing every year. What is most striking is that much of this waste is not caused by garments being worn out. It is caused by garments being abandoned. After years working in clothing alterations and repairs, I have come to believe that one of the biggest environmental challenges in fashion is not just production. It is the way we have lost the habit of looking after the clothes we already own. Most of the items brought into our stores are not beyond […]
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