Sustainable Tips and More
Read stories about how Basic Revolution started, tips to be more sustainable, and stories of successes and failures at being more sustainable.
Let’s just rip the bandaid off this one: NOPE!.
We need to look at how we consume as much as how we dispose of clothing.
It’s easy to ignore things. That squeaky door hinge, the boring project at work you don’t want to do, the dog hair tumbleweeds rolling through your house. But at some point you will have to fix the hinge, finish the project, and clean up that damn dog hair. (How does she even have any hair left!?!)
We talked about fast fashion a few weeks ago, so we're excited to share a guest post from Bergen Anderson of Lilla Barn this week about slow fashion.
The phrase “slow fashion” is new to many people even though slow fashion has been around forever. It’s “slow” because each part of the process is intentional.
That’s a big question. Here’s a fast answer. Us.
Yup, the average American throws away 80lbs of clothing a year. As people who donate, resell, and give clothing to friends who will use it, that was a staggering fact to read. We wondered, should we nanny-cam our alleys and see who is throwing all this stuff away? But that seemed creepy, so we moved on to learning
Who even knew you could recycle hole-y, worn out clothing? We didn’t until we did some Googling. There is a lot of information out there! We learned about different ways clothing - even mixed fibers - can be reused and recycled, and that 95% of textiles can be recycled.
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