The Renewal Workshop aims to cut down on textile waste by repairing clothes that would otherwise be thrown away, keeping them out of landfills
Americans throw away 25bn pounds of clothing, shoes, accessories and other textiles every year. While some of it gets resold at thrift stores or recycled, most of it – 85%, in fact – goes straight to the dump. Nearly 13m tons of textiles were dumped into landfills in the US in 2013, the most recent year for which there is data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Source: Guardian Environment