Sweden drowns in discarded fast fashion items https://www.byteseu.com/911628/ #BrianKelly #FastFashion #RecyclingCentre #stockholm #Sweden #SwedishEnvironmentalProtectionAgency #SwedishMunicipalities #TextileRecycling #TextileWaste
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and that we want to reduce the amount of #TextileWaste that ends up in #landfill.
…And if an item can’t be repaired, over 3 in 5 of our #SecondHand clothing purchases have displaced the need to buy new ones!
The rise of resale websites like #Vinted and #Depop have been an eye opener into just how much #clothing we all own. You can now search for a specific item by size, colour and brand so easily that buying second hand is becoming easier than ever.
This is good news on many fronts. Grateful to Senator Newman for sponsoring, and Gov Newsom for signing #SB707.
A major step forward in addressing #TextileWaste
Senator Josh NewmanNewman’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 Signed by GovernorOfficial Website of Senator Josh Newman, representing California Senate District 29.
SB-707 Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 is a start to getting a formal process for recycling textiles.
PLEASE - Call the governors office and ask him to sign it: (916) 445-2841 (or an online written request at https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/)
Legislation details (the Bill analysis tab is helpful): https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB707&showamends=false
#recycling #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #textiles & #textilewaste #GovernorNewsom, please sign this 
The Guardian · Clothes piling up in your closet? A landmark California bill would mandate brands recycle them
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We opened our new Sewing Lair store in Moorooka for a preview yesterday and it was a success!!! I'm so excited to connect with local creative people, I LOVE to talk about sewing and craft so much and even though peopling is exhausting, discussing shared special interests is soul restoring!
I did little activities during our event, magic leather bracelets and hand sewn crafty medals. It was fun but my verbal communication is garbled at best, no wonder I didn't become a teacher.
The official opening is Wednesday and I was so worried we'd need to scramble to do a big restock - the problem isn't that we don't have enough stock, it's that we don't have enough volunteers to sort and measure everything. (So if you're local to Beenleigh and love sewing or crafting we'd love to see you!) Fortunately, the shop still looks well stocked despite selling SO MUCH yesterday. It's truly a testament to how full our deceptively petite store is.
I haven't yet set up my sewing space as we needed it to put up a measuring table. Soon we will have a fold down table and I can start moving in. I am concerned about where to store my fabric as I have several big tubs and not a whole lot of room to put them. Same with my ironing board. I am thinking about making an ironing pad I can place on top of a gate leg table I'm hoping to get for cutting out. But I'll wait and see how the space works before I purchase that (second hand of course).
I almost can't believe where my life is right now. Four years ago I was hospitalised with chronic mental illness stuff and undergoing TMS treatment. I didn't think I had much of a future at all. Now I am opening a store and managing it with an awesome team of women, sewing plus size clothes, and spreading the word about textile waste and creativity!
Today I was one of many who helped save two trucks of "we don't know how many" coming from a warehouse full of textiles that was going to be dumped. It was mostly lingerie fabric and trims, all perfectly good and usable. This is why I volunteer at the Lair! So much good shit is sent to landfill and we see .000000001% of it! If that!
I'm not mad at the people clearing the warehouse - it's a sad backstory and it must happen all the time. This is why community is vital, we need to link up and distribute resources that would otherwise be sent to the tip. With these resources we can share low cost and free items that help people make stuff they don't have to buy. We can take down capitalism... Well... A little bit of it.
EU Parliament approves proposal to reduce textile and food waste https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eu-parliament-approves-proposal-to-reduce-textile-and-food-waste/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #foodwaste #textilewaste
EURACTIV · EU Parliament approves proposal to reduce textile and food waste
I realised I would be volunteering on Halloween so I had to make myself a spooky/ crafty ribcage t-shirt. The only new things in this shirt are the thread and ric rac.
I had an idea to make a grocery bag out of reclaimed textiles and use the shape of a classic plastic shopping bag but add ruffles and applique. And a swear. But I did it in another vintage floral that has a camouflage effect because I'm self conscious about swearing in public.
All the fabric I use is from vintage collections, destashes, remnants and other second hand textile sources like clothing. I'm usually able to cut around flaws but sometimes they sneak in! In the case of this hat, the upholstery fabric unravelled quickly once it was cut and as a result some fibres weren't caught in the seams.
I could have consigned this hat to the bin - and a manufacturer may well have simply thrown it away. I want to draw attention to textile waste so it'd be hugely hypocritical of me to cast a hat aside when some simple mending could make it wearable and actually even more interesting.
Visible mending can be so gorgeous! I got a book out of the library the other week and did a bit of weaving to enclose the loose fibres and strengthen the area.
I hope someone will love this hat enough to adopt it and build fabulous outfits around it.