Is fashion sustainable? - a few resources for London Fashion week

This week is London Fashion week

this week the Environmental Audit Committee published a report on Clothing Consumption and sustainability. One key fact it highlighted was that  "300,000 tonnes of textile waste ends up in household black bins every year, sent to landfill or incinerators. Less than 1% of material used to produce clothing is recycled into new clothing at the end of its life."

For further information on sustainable fashion try these resources.
The Conversation blog has academic articles discussing sustainable fashion#

The Pulse of the Fashion Industry report is published by the Global Fashion Agenda, in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group. assessments since 2017 on the fashion  industry’s environmental and social performance.

Sustainable Apparel Coalition is an industry led initiative. It has developed  the Higg Index, a standardized supply chain measurement tool set

The Sustainable Fashion Blueprint 2018, in University of Cambridge MBA students Diane Albouy and Olabisi Adesida. The Report draws on existing resources, as well as exclusive content collected through the Mamoq Fashion Survey, a consumer research survey designed to assess consumer knowledge of sustainable fashion.

WRAP has been working on an action plan . It has guides for extending clothing life and blueprints for the industry

these include clothing design.