Removing the silk gloves and pulling a (historic) punch
Wardrobe and Climate was the over-arching theme for a CHANGE event at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Wardrobe and Climate was the over-arching theme for a CHANGE event at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Hybrid seminar Thursday November 9th, 2023, 2:30-4:00 PM
Recording and presentations are now available from the hybrid event presenting state of knowledge on textile waste streams.
The ethical issues are often discussed separate from environmental issues, it is high time they are discussed in the same room. Therefore, a huge thanks to EcoAge who arranged an important roundtable, and in the… EcoAge Roundtable in Brussels: A fair phase-out of fossil fuels from the fashion industry
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash
(…) we have found that food offers us two good guiding principles.
The first one is to eat up what is on your plate. The second is waste audits as a means to gain meaningful knowledge on what gets “eaten up” and what doesn’t.
13th of April this year an online PhD masterclass was conducted within the scope of the CHANGE work package 5. The masterclass was online and involved the currently eight PhD students working with the wardrobe… PhD Masterclass on Wardrobe Research
In a position paper from the Change and Wasted Textiles projects, authors Kate Fletcher, Irene Maldini, Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Kirsi Laitala, Jens Måge and Tone Skårdal Tobiasson have addressed the background document from EU’s Joint… Ecodesign position paper: Textiles and footwear
Holding on or letting go? Why don’t consumers complain more? Why do we hang on to stuff that is flawed? How to make fast fashion out of fashion and actually degrow the textile sector? All… A full PLATE with a 7-course SIFO menu
OPINION: What we do know, is that all synthetic clothing and materials, sooner or later, will become microplastics, a «time-delayed» pollution bomb. And thus, they will ultimately become a problem for seabirds, and us. A… Microplastics or microfibers: Does anyone really get what this is about?