The Great Swap Shop is a new project collaboration between Faiths4Change and Liverpool World Centre, funded by Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority. It aims to change behaviours around textile/clothing consumption whilst exploring the wonderful creativity that sustainable planet friendly fashion offers.
The project is running between October 2022 and March 2023 and will be open to both primary and secondary schools across Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral and provides a number of free school activities to take part in, from teachers’ workshops and a mock UN Textile and Climate Conference to Swap Shop events and workshops.
The end goal for this project is that after our workshops and events students and teachers will be able to create their very own textiles team who will continue to raise awareness of sustainable fashion within school for other year groups and future children.
The project is running between October 2022 and March 2023 and will be open to both primary and secondary schools across Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral and provides a number of free school activities to take part in, from teachers’ workshops and a mock UN Textile and Climate Conference to Swap Shop events and workshops.
The end goal for this project is that after our workshops and events students and teachers will be able to create their very own textiles team who will continue to raise awareness of sustainable fashion within school for other year groups and future children.
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Fast fashion and textile waste is now a huge issue around the globe, contributing to the increasingly negative effects climate change has on our planet.
It is now our responsibility to care for and dispose of the clothes and textiles we already own in sustainable ways whether it be recycling, reusing, re-wearing, repairing, or up-cycling them to the best of our ability.
Fast fashion and textile waste is now a huge issue around the globe, contributing to the increasingly negative effects climate change has on our planet.
- Did you know that fashion accounts for 10% of annual global carbon (greenhouse gas) emissions and nearly 20% of wastewater?
It is now our responsibility to care for and dispose of the clothes and textiles we already own in sustainable ways whether it be recycling, reusing, re-wearing, repairing, or up-cycling them to the best of our ability.
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