It is currently impossible to submit clothes for recycling to municipal collections (except for some individual municipalities). Private or non-profit operators, such as Myrorna and Humanbridge, take care of donated clothes. The company I:co is the in-store collection company …
We buy large quantities of clothes yearly. Many of these clothes are left hanging in the wardrobe, and about a third are never worn.
We discard nearly 8 kg of our purchases as waste, with approximately five …
Did you know that a kilo of raw cotton costs about SEK 18, which the buyer pays the grower? The grower gets his money, which may seem low, …
Water and chemicals are two essential ingredients for making cotton. Did you know that the Swedish clothing sector consumes as much water as the municipal waterworks produce annually? [1] [2]
No, of course not. But… to grow a kilo of cotton requires 1 to 1.5 kilos of chemicals and a pair of cotton pants weighs between 0.5 to 0.8 kilos [1], so…
For over an hour, these chemicals work …
Yes, the fact is that most of your clothes contain “plastic”. Look at the label and what it says: polyester, nylon, lycra, elastane, and acrylic. These are common materials in our clothes and are usually called synthetic fibres. Synthetic fibres …
