Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

A Sustainable New Year From Selfridges

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You may recall that this time last year Selfridge's flagship London store gave over its iconic window display to sustainable fashion. Th...
Friday, 18 November 2016

You Can't Compost Clothing

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A fascinating article in Magnifeco takes a stern line over an innocuous term - biodegradable. It turns out that the idea of natural materia...
Wednesday, 2 November 2016

The Big Knitathon

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With Halloween behind us, I think we can really feel the weather deepening into autumn. There's a properly frosty chill in the air. All ...
Monday, 4 July 2016

The Most Vital Weapon Against Fast Fashion: Education!

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It's all too easy to make noise about ethical fashion, but we live in a noisy world. Shouting is one thing, but education is a much sma...
Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Make Room In Your Wardrobe

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A fascinating article in the Guardian recently took a peek into journalist Chitra Ramaswamy's wardrobe, and came to some interesting co...
Thursday, 26 May 2016

Stemming The Spill Of Used Clothes

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An art installation on a Seattle beachfront has got Americans thinking about the amount of clothing they send to landfill every year. ...
Monday, 9 May 2016

From Waste To Want: How Reflow Is Rewriting Our Attitude To Waste Plastic

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Waste plastic. One of the environmental bête noires of the age. From the supermarket bag fluttering in a tree to the great reef of plastic f...
Friday, 8 April 2016

Are H&M Stepping On Fashion Revolution's Toes?

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We're coming up on Fashion Revolution Day. Founded to commemorate the Rana Plaza collapse by Eco-fashionistas Cary Somers and Orsola De...
Monday, 4 April 2016

A Bag For Life

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Every since the ban on free plastic bags in the UK came in late last year, there has been a boom in what are euphemistically called 'ba...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

WRAP: Are We Sending More Clothes Than Ever To Landfill?

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A new report from sustainability certifiers WRAP bears worrying news for those of us who hope that we're starting to do better when it ...
Friday, 29 January 2016

Malala, Used Clothes, And An Education Revolution

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Photo via Wikimedia Commons Malala Yousafzai. Everyone knows her name. The girl who stands up for the right for everyone, regardless of...
Friday, 22 January 2016

Build Your Own Bobble

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Cold out, innit? I'm writing this from the end of The Pier, watching the Thames slowly freeze over under my tiny writing shack. Even w...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Knickers: Model's Own

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Solo charity fundraising can be tough. To succeed you need tenacity, enthusiasm, some social media savvy and above all else, an idea to hoo...
Thursday, 31 December 2015

2015: The Year At The Pier

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  2015 has been, to put it mildly, an eventful year. In our little corner of the world, we've seen all sorts of changes and innovations....
Friday, 18 December 2015

Customisable Clothing For Christmas! (Next Year, Maybe...)

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You know how it is at this time of year. Parties and events and all sorts of social obligations, all of which need the right costume. As if ...
Friday, 27 November 2015

Twelve Jumpers Of Christmas

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Christmas jumpers. Gotta love 'em, right? Well, we do in the UK at any rate. It's estimated that we'll buy ten million of the t...
Thursday, 12 November 2015

Hugh's War On Fashion Waste

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When you think of voices raised in support of sustainable fashion, the name Hugh Fearnley-Whittinstall doesn't readily spring to mind....
Friday, 6 November 2015

Success For SCAP

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In Wednesday's post , I talked about the huge potential for ethical success in ECAP–a newly created cross-Europe initative to build ...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Perfect Circle

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An important challenge to sustainable fashion is based around a very simple question–how do we keep textiles out of landfill? A million to...
Thursday, 29 October 2015

Coffee Time!

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As a writer, I exist mostly on coffee and imagination. I would be useless on The Pier without my morning shot of joe–although the full pot...