{"id":8398,"date":"2019-02-20T22:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2019-02-20T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:30:28","slug":"greener-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8398","title":{"rendered":"Greener fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1024px-CM_Juarez_District_5_Tour_-_Marys_Place_24513339843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8400 size-medium\" title=\"Seattle City Council from Seattle [CC0]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1024px-CM_Juarez_District_5_Tour_-_Marys_Place_24513339843-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1024px-CM_Juarez_District_5_Tour_-_Mary's_Place_(24513339843)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1024px-CM_Juarez_District_5_Tour_-_Marys_Place_24513339843-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1024px-CM_Juarez_District_5_Tour_-_Marys_Place_24513339843.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A report suggesting ways to promote greener fashion has been produced today.\u00a0 Whilst as I mentioned in passing last week the average shelf life of an item is not as little as 5 weeks, it is certainly true that clothes are treated as a disposable commodity.\u00a0 Clothing produces an astonishing 8% of global climate emissions, which is bigger than aviation and shipping combined.\u00a0 There are also continual questions of the ethics of its production.\u00a0 Mostly concerning child labour and health and safety rules in the developing world where its made.\u00a0 There is also the issue of artificial fibres.\u00a0 These end up in the worlds oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-party environmental audit committee have suggested that a tax be put on each item of 1p.\u00a0 This would aid recycling.\u00a0 To me this does not seem nearly enough.\u00a0 There are 1 million tonnes of clothes thrown away every year.\u00a0 In addition retailers attempts to reduce waste since 2012 have been outweighed by an increase in sales.\u00a0 The other main recommendation is to introduce sewing classes to schools.\u00a0 This seems a sensible idea.\u00a0 I was taught to sow.\u00a0 I can do very basic repairs but no more than that.\u00a0 There is no question greener fashion could be an easy win.\u00a0 Apart from a recycling tax my recommendations would include wearing clothes longer (in all senses since washing puts fibres into the sewage and hence ultimately the sea).\u00a0 Buying less clothing and trying to buy clothing that has no oil based fibres in.\u00a0 A search on some images brought up nettles and traditionally clothing has been made from this plant.\u00a0 You can also buy clothing made of bamboo and hemp.\u00a0 This latter clothing looks indistinguishable from any other fashion item.\u00a0 The advantage of all these plants are that they are essentially very easy to grow and grow quickly. \u00a0 So there are natural alternatives and any tax should encourage these niche expensive products to go mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report suggesting ways to promote greener fashion has been produced today.\u00a0 Whilst as I mentioned in passing last week the average shelf life of an item is not as little as 5 weeks, it is certainly true that clothes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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