What is the challenge behind textile recycling?
Recycling multiple fiber materials can be challenging because different fibers have different properties and can require different processes to be recycled effectively. For example, cotton…
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Why is Sustainable Fashion more expensive?
Sustainable fashion is often more expensive than conventional fashion for several reasons: Higher production costs: Sustainable fashion is made using eco-friendly materials and processes, which…
What is Textile Recycling?
Textile recycling is the process of recovering used clothing and other textiles for re-use or to extract raw materials for manufacture of new products. This…
East Harlem store helps shoppers swap, pass on clothing items sustainably
EAST HARLEM, Manhattan — The fashion industry is one of the least environmentally friendly industries that exists, but to help combat this is a store…
The NYC Fair Trade Coalition Wants You to Ditch Shopping and Start Swapping
Swap meets are helping the NYCFTC introduce New Yorkers to a more planet- and worker-friendly consumer ethos. After a novelty holiday sweater wears out its…
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Reducing Fashion’s Massive Carbon Footprint
CNN Call to Earth Fashion ShowThe fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world. The Sustainable Fashion Community Center in New…
Behind the Scenes at the Call to Earth Fashion Show
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Harlem’s Sustainable Fashion Community Center Lets Customers Swap and Shop (Exclusive)
Between pollutive material production, water waste, and oftentimes exploited workers, the fashion industry can have an extremely negative impact on our planet. Therefore it’s crucial…
Swapping Clothes and Sustainable Fashion Key at New Community Center
Inside the Sustainable Fashion Community Center in Harlem. COURTESY OF EVI ABELER PHOTOGRAPHY After quietly opening in May, the Sustainable Fashion Community Center at 1795…
