Do you know that the fashion industry produces between 5-10% of global carbon emissions from the use of gas and diesel, including 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per annum?
And too many clothes the fashion industry pumps out end up in landfills, where they decompose and release the dangerous greenhouse gas methane.
These confronting facts have motivated ACF Community Inner Melbourne to run a second Clothing for Climate event following our successful 2023 event in Collingwood. So we're back in 2024!
While it's great to enjoy our clothing and feel good in them, our goal is to help us connect the threads between the fashion industry and its impacts on nature and global warming.
In a fun and interactive way, learn more about how we can minimise our carbon footprint with clothing!
- Learn practical ways to repair our clothing at a clothing repair station and care for our garments in the most environmentally-sound way
- Share stories and experience in responding to this climate emergency and the role of over consumption of fashion at our informal conversation table over a cuppa and morning tea
- Learn more about a practical way to recycle unusable clothing for carpet yarn or re-spun natural fibres from RCYCL
- Channel your concern about global warming into ACF's campaign to STOP the approval of Woodside's Burrup Hub gas project in Western Australia that will produce gas and methane equivalent to the greenhouse gas generated from 15 coal-fired power plants. We'll take a group photo at our event to say NO to methane emissions from landfills and gas expansion!
Bring along some clothes to repair, or clothes beyond repair that will be donated to RCYCL.
You and your mates and family are so welcome.
Please RSVP as places are limited!