Category: Fashion

How often do you purchase new clothes? With the global garment industry producing around 100 billion new clothing items each year, options and fashion trends seem unlimited. It’s amazing how quickly designs hit the shelves. A report found that fashion manufacturers could design, manufacture, and have clothing items ready to sell in as little as […]

Earth.org reports that 11.3 million tons of textile waste are sent to landfills every year. The average person throws out 81.5 pounds of clothing each year. That’s just the U.S.Over 100 million tons of worldwide textile waste is trashed each year. That waste ends up in landfills around the world, equating to about one garbage […]

An alarming number of tons of textiles end up in landfills each year. That includes blankets, shoes, clothes, curtains, towels, and other fabric items In 2018, the EPA estimated that 17 million tons of textiles ended up in the trash.The U.S. has 542 operational landfills. In seven states, landfills are nearing their capacity. Reducing trash […]

Do you wear clothing until it’s threadbare and falling apart? Or, are you the type of person who wears an outfit until it is out of style? There’s nothing wrong with being fashionable, but it can lead to a lot of trash if you don’t recycle clothing properly. That’s where the problem lies. Few districts […]

I have two ways you can rid yourself of those precious-closet-space-fillers.

The non-profit Council for Textile Recycling (CTR) asks the question: “Are we making the right decisions when the apparel, footwear, textiles, and accessories we buy are no longer useful?”

Fast forward to 2016, the program has collection bins in all of its retail locations in the U.S., Canada and Germany as The North Face continues to Clothes the Loop.

As a wake-up call to bring attention to the impact that clothing has on our planet, Savers staged a “clothing spill” on Alki Beach in Seattle…

Don’t leave your pets out of the Halloween fun! Consider making them one of these fun costumes – completely from recyclables!

Give your a wardrobe a fall update without breaking the bank. Check out the best fall garments to thrift below!