Transcript Lesson 5_Social, moral and environmental issues

Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
What is your understand
of these key terms?
- Fairtrade
- Ethical trade
- Life cycle analysis
- Landfill site
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
- Fairtrade = A consumer label that guarantees a stable price for
products and a fair wage for workers in less economically
developed countries.
- Ethical trade = The buying and selling of goods and services
from businesses that are morally and socially responsible.
- Life cycle analysis = Looking at all the stages in the life of a
product in order to find out information about how it is made,
used and disposed of.
- Landfill site = A large excavated area where rubbish is
dumped and then covered with earth once full.
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
The 6 Rs
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Recycle - Recycle materials that can be recycled
Reuse - Adapt products that can be reused for a new use
Reduce - Reduce the amount of materials and energy
needed to produce
Refuse - Refuse to buy products that are not sustainable
Rethink - Think about design issues differently
Repair - Repair products rather than buying new ones
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Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Environmental issues
• We use energy in everything we do.
• The production of textile products adds
to pollution in manufacture, distribution
and use.
• Energy used in making textile products
creates CO2 and contributes to global
warming.
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Global warming
• When we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil,
gas, petrol & diesel), carbon dioxide is
released.
• This carbon dioxide traps the sun’s
heat in the atmosphere leading to an
increase in temperatures.
• The more products we want, the more
energy we use to produce & transport
them. So we produce more C02.
• It has been calculated that if everyone
on earth lived the lifestyle of people in
developed nations then we would need
at least 3 planets to meet our needs.
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Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
How the Textiles industry
contributes
• The desire to be ‘in fashion’ creates a
vast market for new products. People buy
new clothes because they want them, not
because they really need them.
• In developed countries we only actually
wear about 20% of the clothes we own,
the rest remain at the back of our
wardrobes.
• 70% of the world’s population has no
access to new clothing
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Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
How the Textiles industry contributes
• New products use up huge resources of raw materials and energy
in their design, manufacture, distribution, sale and use.
•The manufacturing of synthetic fibres such as polyester and nylon
uses up oil and creates toxic pollutants.
• Cleaning fibres, dyeing, bleaching and finishing fabrics requires vast
quantities of water & energy & often causes pollution from the
chemicals used.
•Transporting raw materials & components to factories, & finished
goods to shops, adds to global warming through the CO2 emissions
of vehicles.
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Problems with disposal
Once a product is considered out of date or unfashionable we
tend to want to throw it away. About one million tonnes of textile
products are thrown away in the UK each year and 95% of this
could be recycled. Our landfill sites are quickly filling up and we
can no longer carry on discarding our waste in this
irresponsible way
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Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
What is being done?
Charity shops provide an efficient service
to recycle our unwanted clothes and
textile products. Good quality items can
be resold in the charity shops. Other
items are sent to developing countries to
provide much needed basic clothing
needs. Poor quality textiles are sent into
the shoddy industry to be re-spun into
new yarn.
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Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Retailers that are making a difference
• Oxfam specialises in stocking quality designer clothing in its range of
Oxfam Originals stores.
•TRAID gives a second life to unwanted clothing by employing a team
of fashion designers to remake and customise items into unique and
individual outfits.
•Top Shop has vintage clothing departments in some of its larger
stores to resell quality designer clothing.
•Some independent dress agencies specialise in buying unwanted
designer items and reselling these at a lot less than their original
price.
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Gary Harvey –
Dress made from recycled sweet
wrappers!
Gary Harvey –
Denim dress made from
42 pairs of Levi jeans!
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Social issues
The choices you make when buying goods on the high street or
internet have a direct impact on others
Working conditions link
Interviewing factory owner link
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Ethical trading
• As a designer, when sourcing fabrics and
components you need to be aware of…
- Where they came from
- How they were produced
• As a consumer you can look for labels that identify
products as being safer for the environment and
fairly produced.
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a group of
companies, charities and organisations founded in
1998 to work towards improving conditions in global
supply chains.
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Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Sustainable fibres and fabrics
• Organic cotton fabric = grown without use of herbicides or pesticides.
• Fairtrade fabric = produced without exploitation of labour.
• Bamboo/soy/hemp/bio fabric = fibres that can be harvested with reduced
impact on the environment.
• Tencel/regenerated fibre/lyocell = made from renewable source.
• Recycled polyester/PET = made from existing polyester so reduced use of
coal/oil, or recycled plastic bottles. No to polyester unless linked to recycling
• Peace silk, ahimsa silk = produced without harm to silk worms.
•Faux fur/leather = made from synthetic materials
• Recycled/reclaimed/reused fabric = existing fabrics reused rather than
manufacturing more from raw materials
• Natural dyed fabric/natural pigmented fabric/unbleached fabric = use of
toxic chemicals reduced/avoided
• Biodegradable fabric = will break down in time naturally.
Key questions:
-What are the social, moral and environmental concerns surrounding the
Textiles industry?
- How can textile manufacturers and retailers reduce the social and
environmental impact?
Activity - Textiles and the environment:
Use the revision guides (pg18 - pg23) to
help you produce revision resources
focussing on social, moral and
environmental considerations.
You could produce a mind map, cue cards
or any other resource you feel will be
helpful.
Key Focus:
• Sustainability
• Disposal
• Reducing the environmental
Impact
• Recycling
• The 6 Rs
• Ethical goods
What are the top 3 facts or
pieces of information
you will take away from
this lesson?