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Posts in the Environment category

• Why retailers must put unsold clothes into use

  

  By TRAID.

  October 8, 2019

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  A major issue in the fashion supply chain is ‘deadstock’- clothes which haven’t been sold at full or sale prices. […] Read More...

• Let’s Fix Fashion Now

  

  By Mary Creagh MP.

  September 25, 2019

  • Campaigns
  • Education
  • Environment
  Today marks the one year anniversary of TRAID’s 23% campaign and Londoners have passed on one million garments. An incredible […] Read More...

• Taking Stock: Reality vs Perception of Clothes Donations

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  September 10, 2019

  • Campaigns
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  TRAID and many other charities, rely on donations made by you, the UK public, at textile banks to stock our […] Read More...

• What is the future of environmental education?

  

  By Hannah Fairley.

  July 22, 2019

  • Education
  • Environment
  Our Education Programmes Coordinator, Hannah Fairley, discusses with Dr Melissa Glackin, Senior Lecturer in Science Education at King’s College London […] Read More...

• London Climate Action Week: this is what you can do

  

  By Andrea Speranza.

  July 1, 2019

  • Campaigns
  • Climate Crisis
  • Environment
  London has declared a climate emergency. In response, the capital is launching its first ever London Climate Action Week, between […] Read More...

• Government rejects MPs proposals to fix fashion

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  June 20, 2019

  • Environment
  • Fashion Industry
  TRAID is concerned at the ‘business as usual’ response from the UK Government which rejected a raft of recommendations made […] Read More...

• Ethiopia’s Organic Cotton Future

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  April 26, 2019

  • Environment
  Cotton is the most used natural fibre in the textile industry but we don’t tend to make the connection that […] Read More...

• HURR supports the 23% campaign

  

  By TRAID.

  March 21, 2019

  • Campaigns
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Environment
  TRAID is partnering with HURR, the UK’s first peer-to-peer wardrobe rental platform. They are on a mission to make fashion […] Read More...

• EAC calls for more regulation of the fashion industry

  

  By Andrea Speranza.

  February 19, 2019

  • Campaigns
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published its final report on its inquiry into the sustainability of the fashion […] Read More...

• MPs puts fast fashion under scrutiny

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  November 26, 2018

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  Tomorrow, Tuesday November 27th, an unprecedented investigation by MPs will take place when some of our best-known high street retailers […] Read More...

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