Did you know about 15% of fabric intended for clothing ends up on the cutting room floor as textile offcuts?
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Did you know about 15% of fabric intended for clothing ends up on the cutting room floor as textile offcuts?
For decades, about 15% of fabric intended for clothing has ended up on the cutting room floor of tailors and fashion designers as textile offcuts (waste). This waste is usually being neglected and in a research carried out by @thegreens, we realized that about 1600 – 4000kgs of textile offcuts is produced every month by the more than 800 tailors and fashion designers of Bamenda.
Most of this waste gets burned or thrown in the landfill and this has greatly contributed to environmental degradation and accelerated climate change.
@ecodesigns was created to solve this problem of textile offcuts pollution and textile waste pollution as a whole. At @ecodesigns, we are collecting the textile offcuts from tailors and repurposing them to produce pillows, dolls, chalkboard dusters, etc.
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We can do more but we lack materials and machines to increase our textile recycling and women empowerment project. We have 11 trainees and 02 Training Directors but have just 06 machines which are not enough for the 13 young girls who are striving to get empowered as well as clean-up the world. It is for this reason that @ecodesigns is striving to raise funds to purchase 7 machines so that we can double our productivity and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our textile recycling and fashion designing training.
Learn more about Ecodesigns at https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@ecodesigns/introducing-ecodesigns-a-textile-recycling-and-fashion-designing-hub-that-is-empowering-young-women
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TrufflePig15% is a lot of waste generated but thank God @ecodesigns is doing a great job to recycle the waste generated.
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