Globally we buy 80 billion new items of clothing each year, but as we’re also trying to stick to the latest trends of fast fashion, a lot of it ends up in the back of our wardrobes and 350,000 tonnes of used clothing goes to landfill in the UK every year. Making conscious choices,…
Month: February 2016
The True Cost
One of 2015’s most important films was The True Cost, showing, literally, the true cost of the fashion industry. It shows an industry that is the second most polluting industry on earth, second only to the oil industry. It shows an industry where the impact on natural resources isn’t even measured. And it shows an…
Hello!
Hello! This will be an outlet for sharing thoughts on making conscious decisions when shopping/eating/living, hopefully encouraging people to buy nice things, eat well and have fun, whilst also making the world a bit better! As consumers, and citizens of the world, we can ask where products were made, and we can demand fair pay…