JawaPos.com – The fashion industry has started to realize in recent years that the concept fashion environmentally friendly or sustainable fashion can solve the problem of textile waste. Not a little waste fashion so far it has polluted nature, especially the sea
As far as the Eye of the View (SMM) as a fashion label and change agent is committed to becoming a more responsible label. Therefore, to increase consumer awareness, together with TACO and Ashta District 8, SMM, they exhibited an exhibition about the emergency of textile waste with the title ‘Sayang Clothing, Sayang Alam’.
Market for industry fashion continues to develop and dynamic, it is also influenced by the very fast trend movement. Facts globally, industry fast fashion giving consumers the option to be able to buy more clothes at affordable prices resulting in accumulation of waste fashion continues to increase.
This is also coupled with the use of synthetic fibers such as polyester which are plastic fibers and are not biodegradable. It even takes up to 200 years to decompose. What’s more, about 85 percent of textile waste is disposed of in landfills and the sea.
In response to this, #sejauhmanakamupeduli presents several solutions to be able to contribute in saving the earth from waste fashion. One way is to raise awareness of environmental damage that has occurred, choose natural fibers for textiles, shop less, buy good quality so that they last, and buy products with a recycled concept.
“The facts show that fashion is one of the biggest contributors to garbage pollutants. 95 percent of wasted textile waste can still be recycled or reused into other functional objects (upcycle), “said SMM Founder and Creative Director Chitra Subyakto, in a webinar, Tuesday (9/3).
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Editor: Nurul Adriyana Salbiah
Reporter: Marieska Harya Virdhani
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