Salvage Culture reboots
Our town was done with plastic bags and straws. We wanted to turn our mind to the next major plastic polluter and get started with the work that needs to be done – textiles. Modern textiles are on average, 60% plastic. Every time we wash textiles with plastic components and the rinse water goes down a drain micro plastics are shed into the planets waterways.
2023
The global fashion industry generates somewhere between 4-10% of total global emissions – depending on who you believe – and according to the movie we watched at the Bangalow Film Festival, Fashion Reimagined, the industry is set to grow by 63% by 2030. Efforts of course are being made to inspire and compel the companies involved to reduce their emissions but WRAP – an impressive climate change activist organisation in the UK – has already reported that reductions are being swamped by the sheer unrelenting increase in volume of garments being produced and sold each year.
#buybetter #care #repair #repurpose
We recently visited SWOP in Brisbane and love the concept of high end second hand clothing stores that sell on consignment – BUT we DEPLORE the behaviour of a greedy few who scour op shops to find quality items cheap purely for the purpose of taking them to shops like SWOP to make a profit. Not cool.
For truly ethical fashion, we take our inspiration from Patagonia and are inspired by the efforts of other local labels including Spell and Arnhem. We almost fell over when we came across Love Your Clothes, a UK campaign that is pretty much everything we wish we could have conjured up for our community. Click through their logo’s below to see what we’re talking about!
