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Over the last few years, we’ve all become well acquainted with sustainability and its many forms. For many of us, making small changes in our everyday lives like opting for reusable shopping bags, KeepCups and avoiding single-use plastics has become second nature. While these individual actions signify a societal shift in our mindset towards the environment, there is still a lot of work to be done on a grander, global scale.
The fashion industry is a massive part of this. According to the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee, the clothing production industry is the third biggest manufacturing industry globally, after the automotive and technology industries. Although it’s not as big, textile production contributes “more to climate change than international aviation and shipping combined”. Huge.