Interesting Facts

Around two million tonnes of clothing ends up in landfill in the UK every year. (The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) says the clothing and textiles sector in the UK produces around 3.1m tonnes of carbon dioxide, 2m tonnes of waste and 70m tonnes of waste water per year. In 2007 the Environment Select Committee found that the proportion of textile waste at council tips in the UK had risen from 7 per cent to 30 per cent in five years. It's called throw away or disposable fashion, driven by companies like Primark, in fact it's called the Primark effect. There is hope though, people like Helen Storey who began the Wonderland project, and who along with Professor Tony Ryan has invented the Disappearing Dress, which disintegrates in the wash. My only worry is that it rains a lot in the UK.)

CO2 emissions from shipping are twice the level of aviation. (Darn it! Now I'll have to cancel that world cruise I was planning.)

powered by ODEO According to a major study published in the Lancet there is a link to motorway pollution and permanent, life-limiting damage to children's lungs. (Children who live within 500 metres of a motorway grow up with significantly reduced lung capacity. The culprit could be diesel fumes, but the only solution is to reduce emissions.)