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Textile consumption

New Year’s Resolution: become an environmental hero!

3 January, 2019 by asas

New Years Resolution. Sun set with hand shaped heart

“100 million people in India do not have access to fresh drinking water, and we could cover 85% of India’s daily water needs with the water used to run the country’s cotton farms.”

– Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist, The …

After Christmas sale!

25 December, 2018 by asas

A lot of clothes hanging on rack for after Christmas Sale

The shopping highlight of the year will start soon; it’s a midday sale, and everything will be gone! The clothing companies sell away the latest garments, and it is tempting to go shopping!

At the same time, reports tell us …

Is it smart to buy 3 and pay for 2?

7 December, 2018 by admin

A women in a wordrobe looking through clothes rack. Window in the background, wondering if one more item is bad for the environment

How many clothing items do you have in your wardrobe that you do not use? How many clothing pieces did you buy while thinking were unnecessary or “bad” purchases? Could you do something differently?

Did you know that we make

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What happens to your used clothes you hand in?

3 December, 2018 by admin

A huge mountain of garments up the wall in a corner in a room with white wall and brick color floor

 

Did you know that we Swedes throw away about 72,000 tons of textiles that are just burned up yearly? It’s time to rethink and start recycling your old clothes.

Numerous companies have led us to believe that the items we

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Help! I have nothing to wear!

30 November, 2018 by admin

nothing to wear even if the closet is filled up

Did you know that we Swedes buy an average of 14 kilos of textiles per person yearly? Of these 14, 10 kilos are clothing. How many of the garments do you actually use?

We use an average of two-thirds of …

Rethink Black Friday 2021

23 November, 2018 by admin

color pyramide and what to do in stead of buying too much new clothes

We do not support Black Friday. Here you get concrete alternatives to the shopping hysteria.

Today is Black Friday. Black Friday happens the day after American Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November, sometimes from midnight on this family celebration …

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