🧵By #mending a cotton t-shirt instead of replacing it, you could help to save over 7.5kg in #CO2e. That would be equivalent to ironing for over 25 hours.

The days of being told that #repair isn't an important part of a garment's life cycle are gone. I hope this will also lead to a change in the way that repair is perceived in our society; as a skilled and valuable #craft that deserves to be invested in and as a powerful environmental and political act.

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Repairing Our Clothes 🧵

Thanks to the latest WRAP report (Feb 2025) we finally have some statistics about how choosing to #repair our #clothes and buying #SecondHand is having an impact.

A few key points >>>

🪡 #Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.

This shows that we’re placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we don’t want to keep replacing items,

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Found on slrpnk.net