1. What is your understand
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

2. 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.

3. Recycle - Recycle materials that can be recycled
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
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

4. Environmental issues We use energy in everything we do.
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.

5. 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.

6. How the Textiles industry contributes
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

7. How the Textiles industry contributes
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.

8. Problems with disposal
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

9. 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.

10. Retailers that are making a difference
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.

11. Denim dress made from 42 pairs of Levi jeans! Gary Harvey –
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 –
Denim dress made from 42 pairs of Levi jeans!
Gary Harvey –
Dress made from recycled sweet wrappers!

12. 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
Interviewing factory owner link
Working conditions link

13. 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.

14. Sustainable fibres and fabrics
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.

15. What are the top 3 facts or
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?