Fashion goes green

IF you recently cleared out your wardrobe in preparation for a return to the office, you may well have binned some outfits because they no longer fit or looked dated.

You wouldn't be the only one. According to the UK charity Ellen Macarthur Foundation, millions of tonnes of clothes are produced, worn and thrown away each year. The foundation aims to create a circular economy, where waste is eliminated as much as possible and products are recirculated.

What is even more worrying is that every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck load of clothes is burnt or buried in landfill. And the fashion industry is one of the major contributors of plastic microfibers entering the oceans.