Steps sought to reduce generation of textile waste
The HinduWhat happens when a particular style of clothing goes out of fashion? If not to save money, it is essential to save the earth from a lot of textile waste, observed the Sustainable Fashion Fest organised by Green Worms, a Kozhikode based waste management company, as the culmination of ‘Kuppayam’, their month-long collection drive for used clothes. Textiles constitute the third largest category of urban waste across the world and ‘Fast fashion’, characterised by the constant change in one’es wardrobe in tandem with the changing fashion, plays a major role in it. “Our challenge was to dig out those clothes from the back of the closets in each household and put them to better use’, said Gopika Santhosh, Circular Textile Waste Project Head of Green Worms, in a discussion on ‘Fast Fashion and Beyond’ at the fest. We could at least gift it to someone close who may use it”, said Isabelle Thomas, founder of BhuMe Women’s Collective from Ernakulam, on steps to reduce textile waste.
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