Posts in the Environment category

• Fashioning Purpose & Value from Charity Shops to your Wardrobe

  

  By TRAID.

  November 2, 2023

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • International Development
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  Today’s hyper-consumerist culture has sent the 20-year trend cycle into retirement and instead promoted the more dangerous fast fashion trend […] Read More...

• Life in Plastic Isn’t So Fantastic

  

  By TRAID.

  November 2, 2023

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  Is the sky turning millennium pink or is that just the latest marketing for the Barbie movie? The box office […] Read More...

• A TOAST To Reuse

  

  By TRAID.

  October 5, 2023

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • International Development
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  In July we announced our partnership with the lifestyle brand TOAST. Now three months into the partnership with a donation […] Read More...

• Supporting Cotton Farmers in Ethiopia

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  May 23, 2023

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • International Development
  • Social Justice
  Since 2012, TRAID has funded PAN UK and PAN Ethiopia to empower thousands of cotton farmers in Ethiopia to reduce […] Read More...

• Have yourself a secondhand Christmas

  

  By Abigail Tuddenham.

  December 14, 2022

  • Charity Shops
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  Guest writer Abigail Tuddenham shares how she and her family avoid over-consumption and instead choose secondhand gifts during the festive […] Read More...

• Are we shopping sustainably?

  

  By Isobel Macdonald.

  November 29, 2022

  • Climate Crisis
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  Environmental consciousness is on the rise and increasingly, efforts to be more sustainable influence our purchase decisions. Accordingly, household names […] Read More...

• ‘Tis the Season to Re-Gift

  

  By Deniz Sreedharan.

  November 6, 2022

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Up-cycling
  With the festive season upon us and the shops lined with decorations and gifts, instead of turning to new items, […] Read More...

• 5 Ways to Have A Spooky & Sustainable Halloween

  

  By Adele Kelly.

  October 17, 2022

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  Whilst the Americans are undoubtedly the most renowned for their extravagant Halloween celebrations, Brits despite their more understated approach, still […] Read More...

• We just gave our company to planet earth: Patagonia’s radical move

  

  By Abigail Tuddenham.

  September 29, 2022

  • Climate Crisis
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • International Development
  The unveiling of Patagonia’s “new plan to save our one and only home” could be the most significant action a […] Read More...

• Expanding organic cotton, protecting farmers

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  February 7, 2022

  • Environment
  • International Development
  Over a decade ago, TRAID’s international development funding strategy evolved to exclusively support projects improving the socio-environmental impacts of clothes […] Read More...

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