Hello (a greener) World!
- the_thrift_gift
- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min read
This blog is to promote second-hand clothing, to encourage people to love both what they wear, and the planet, after all looking good shouldn’t cost the world.
I’ve always been obsessed with clothes, and charity shopping has always been a big part of my life, ever since my mum took me as a child. But it wasn’t until this summer that I realised just how important it is. After taking a summer job at a department store, I was exposed to just a small part of the waste that high street fast fashion creates.
Fast fashion is ‘inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends’. It is also killing the planet. The fashion industry is the second largest polluting industry after oil. In 2015, textile production produced 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, that’s more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
The fashion industry negatively affects many aspects of the environment from water pollution, water consumption, the release of dye toxins, landfill, rain forest destruction, and more. Honestly, the environmental impacts are so colossal I can’t list them all out here, but I will be embedding relevant facts throughout my posts, however if you’d like to do your own research I have attached links at the end, of web-pages that I found informative.
After finding this out, I decided I wanted to do something about it, and you can too! I wanted to change the way we view our clothes as no longer disposable, but instead value them as treasured garments that can help the planet, others, and yourself. As such, I will be focusing on posts to reduce, reuse and recycle our wardrobes.
• Reduce – Reducing how much we consume, with tips on buying less, building outfits, and ditching trends to instead create your own style.
• Reuse – Giving clothes new life through closet-cosplays, event-wear, and how to clear out your wardrobe as well as donating your garments to loved ones or charity shops.
• Recycle – Up-cycling your clothes through D.I.Y sewing, including altering, embroidering and repairing garments to get the most out of our wardrobes.
So, if you want to save the world and look good doing it, come back and keep up to date with High Waist, Low Waste.
Yours Sincerely, The Thrift Gift. X.
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