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To make our wardrobes sustainable, we must cut how many new clothes we buy by 75%

To make our wardrobes sustainable, we must cut how many new clothes we buy by 75%.

We started Bridport Fashion Revolution in 2020 as a campaign to highlight the massive environmental impact of the fashion industry. This needs a sizable change in behaviour and mindset. We link with other national and global campaigns – Fashion Revolution week in April and Sustainable Fashion week in September. 

Are there new ways to approach your wardrobe, whilst still maintaining the fun that clothes and textiles bring to many? Our vision is to build a network of local people who are working, producing, processing, or selling sustainable clothing locally. If this is you, please get in touch.

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Garments are made for short life

Events we have organised to promote solutions

Directors of BSRT with Carry Somers, founder of Fashion Revolution.

We programme films and talks to Inform and debate

We work with local traders and hold a Pre-loved and vintage market twice a year, which keeps clothes in circulation for longer, cutting their carbon footprint.

We were part of the Dorset hub for the national Sustainable Fashion Week 2024.

The author of "The Happy Dresser" Rebecca Weef Smith talks about the Psychology of Clothes

We have been holding textile workshops at the youth club to teach basic sewing skills and introduce the concept of sustainable fashion

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As the events we have organized have gathered momentum we have now formed a CIC called Bridport School of Regenerative Textiles.

It’s mission is ‘To create a sustainable and circular fashion &textile economy in West Dorset’

Sustainable Bridport was awarded grant money through Transition Together to help us set up a base at Bridport Youth and Community Club, and start working on the following aims:

  1. For people in/ around Bridport to be knowledgeable, skilled, and aware of sustainable fashion & textiles choices
  2. For Bridport/ West Dorset to have a thriving sustainable fashion/ textile economy/ sector
  3. To reduce textile and fashion waste being created by/ leaving West Dorset

If you would like to support the work we do, get information on the activities put on or have a business that contributes to our mission, please sign up to our network by emailing bridportsrt@gmail.com

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  • According to Fashion on Climate, the fashion industry contributes approximately 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in a single year, equivalent to 4% of all global emissions. This staggering figure is comparable to the annual GHG emissions of France, Germany and the United Kingdom combined. These estimates are based on data from 2018, but the industry is expected to continue to grow in the future. https://www.fashionrevolution.org/climatecrisis/
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Environmental Change

The endless creation of new clothes comes with a heavy environmental price. Every year the sector requires 93 billion cubic meters of water, which is enough to meet the consumption needs of five million people, and is responsible for around 20% of industrial water pollution as a result of textile treatment and dyeing. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing/what-fast-fashion-why-it-problem

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Over Production = Waste
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Garments are Made for a Short Life

It has become a challenge to wear a garment more than five times. Why?

1) Garment quality is declining every year. As a result, our clothes immediately look faded, shapeless, or worn out.

2) Trends are changing so quickly that we cannot keep up. We continue to purchase just to stay up to date. https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/en/whats-wrong-with-the-fashion-industry#anchor-fast-fashion

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Clothes Bought But Not Being Worn.

With the average person in the UK owning 118 items of clothing (including underwear, socks and hosiery), of which just over a quarter (26%) have not been used in the past year. https://wrap.org.uk/resources/report/citizen-insights-clothing-longevity-and-circular-business-models-receptivity-uk

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Changing Attitudes To Fashion.
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