21 November 2024
Ayna Pirkuliyeva from Prague writes on LinkedIn: The mayor of Prague dumped 4 tonnes of clothes in the city centre outside of a shopping mall.
To show us the amount of textile waste a European family of 4 produces in their lifetime.
100 billion new clothes are made each year. Only 1% is recycled.
That’s how we get “fashion graveyards” visible from space (Chile’s Atacama Desert).
10% of all greenhouse gas emissions
Over-consumption of natural resources
Water pollution
A simple action we all can take:
Shop less, second-hand where possible, and use our clothes for longer.
Bravo, Prague
I’d love to see some stats on how this installation affects people’s shopping decisions this week…
We bring leather, material and fashion businesses together: an opportunity to meet and greet face to face. We bring them from all parts of the world so that they can find fresh partners, discover new customers or suppliers and keep ahead of industry developments.
We organise a number of trade exhibitions which focus on fashion and lifestyle: sectors that are constantly in flux, so visitors and exhibitors alike need to be constantly aware both of the changes around them and those forecast for coming seasons.
