Planet vs. Plastics

Circular Fashion is an introductory text to sustainability in fashion. It includes best practice case studies and profiles of companies such as Patagonia, Veja, Christopher Raeburn, and Stella McCartney. It has an overview of the fashion business, tackling the issues of the linear production model of make, use, dispose, and explores the idea of the circular supply chain across all areas of the industry.

Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe.

From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had devastating effects on workers, consumers, and the natural world. This volume provides a framework for examining the ethical, social, and environmental dangers that arise as fashion products are designed, manufactured, distributed, and sold within retail outlets, before being consumed and disposed of.

Although the clothing industry is the second largest polluter after agriculture, most consumers do not think of clothes as a source of environmental damage. This book exposes how clever marketing tactics designed to increase demand skillfully hide this reality. It raises visibility of the ethical aspects of promoting overconsumption through explaining the ecological damage resulting from the high rate of discarding old clothes.

Did you know that over 300,000 tonnes of clothing are sent to landfill in the UK alone every year? And that the industry's carbon emissions are bigger than the world's flight and shipping footprints combined? In this book, you'll find 101 simple tips and tricks you can do in your everyday life to shop better and help save the planet.

Global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, and every year an estimated 300,000 tons of used clothing ends up in landfills. How To Break Up With Fast Fashion will help you to change your mindset, fall back in love with your wardrobe and embrace more sustainable ways of shopping - from the clothes swap to the charity shop. Full of refreshing honesty and realistic advice, Lauren will inspire you to repair, recycle and give your unloved items a new lease of life without sacrificing your style.

Combines practical examples, flat patterns and more than 20 exercises to help you incorporate this sustainable technique into your portfolio. There are also beautifully illustrated interviews with innovative designers to show how sustainable practice continues to evolve within industry. The authors offer flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting-edge fashion designs.