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Store Returns and Recycling: Mitigating Loss, Protecting the Environment

During retail high season, from September through December, stores and ecommerce retailers optimize their logistical networks to meet high demand with a constant flow of goods. Once this season is over, demand sharply drops off, and post-holiday returns begin. Unwanted, damaged, spoiled, or otherwise un-valued merchandise wants to swim ‘back upstream’. This glut of returned […]

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Fast Fashion Crisis

The Front Lines of A Fast Fashion Revolution – Bank and Vogue

More and more in the news, like this article from Newsweek, we’re hearing about the challenges of fast fashion. Contributing to an environmental crisis caused by the worlds production, consumption, and disposal of clothes and textiles, the clothes we buy and use for a season continue to live with for decades, more often than not, in

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If Recycling Nylon is So Good for the Planet…Why Don’t More Companies Do It?

If you were to collect all the debris in the ocean, about 10% of it would be nylon. Nylon is a synthetic fibre made of polymers that don’t break down easily. Nylon is commonly used in fishing nets, which are often discarded carelessly. According to the World Society for the Protection of Animals, more than

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New Fabric Inspired by Nature Repairs Itself

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have created a self-repairing fabric. A biodegradable solution is the trick to creating long-lasting and durable garments. The mixture of bacteria and yeast is similar to a protein found in squid tentacles and can be applied to fabrics such as polyester and cotton. This coating can also be useful in

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Changing Our Disposable Clothing Culture

Our current fast fashion clothing culture is becoming more and more difficult to maintain. Clothes are never advertised as ‘throw away’ or disposable and yet much of the fashion in today’s stores isn’t created to last more than a season of wear. Inexpensive materials are disguised as more expensive counterparts, which means that more people

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Simplifying Sustainable Fashion

There is a perception in today’s society that fast fashion is easy and convenient, opposing sustainable and slow fashion which is complicated and expensive. However this is a false and harmful perception that only maintains an unsustainable fashion climate. Our demand for cheap clothes is increasing, meaning that fair and safe labour is sacrificed; poor

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