Fashion forward: The event featured a ready-to-wear collection by the university’s aspiring designers.
EVERY year, about 100 billion pieces of clothing are made, of which 30% are not sold and up to 85% of textiles end up in landfills.
As if that’s not alarming enough, when we wash clothes, 500,000 tonnes of microfibres are released into the ocean annually – an equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles, according to Taylor’s University deputy vice-chancellor and chief academic officer Prof Dr Pradeep Nair.
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