Tag: Fashion

The Impact of Textile Industry

According to the European Parliamentary Research Service , more than 1,900 chemicals are used in the production of clothing. 165 of these are deemed to be ‘hazardous to health or the environment’.

Football Shirt Production

Footballing heritage runs deep across the world. By extension, football merchandise is a massive market, and the environmental impact of the production of goods like football shirts is significant.

Water Saving Week

World Water Saving Week emphasises the importance of being water efficient. What is the water problem in the textile industry and what solutions are there?

Fast Fashion

Fast fashion has moved at a dizzying speed in the last century. This has come with the cost of spiralling levels of wastewater pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. As the environment becomes a central issue for governments across the world, research into breaking the cycle of fast fashion has intensified.

Greenwashing

With the rise of the ‘conscious consumer’, corporations have no choice but to be increasingly transparent about the role they play in climate change. However, despite our demands for honesty and accountability, some of our favourite brands still try to mislead us through ‘greenwashing’.

Fashion brands found their voice at COP26

In November 2021, the world’s leaders and thousands of environmental activists descended on Glasgow for COP26, the UN’s annual climate summit. Fashion has previously been marginalized…