Posters explain fashion’s environmental impact and encourage consumer actions designed by Redress

This Fact and Reference sheet contains a full list of facts and references from the Background Information content in Modules 1, 2 and 3.

This Fact and Reference sheet contains a full list of facts and references from the interactive learning website ‘Our Jeans and the Planet.’

In September 2020, Redress commissioned a survey, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, to find out more about Hong Kong’s clothing consumption habits.  Our survey found that almost one in three Hong Kong consumers discard their unwanted clothing in the bin, and further revealed that almost one-third of clothes in Hong Kong wardrobes are never or rarely worn. 

Graphic fact cards about fashion’s environmental impact designed by Redress

Diagram of the clothing life cycle within the circular fashion system.

Learn about what happens to your clothes after you donate them to NGO Redress, and what you as a consumer can do to help address the challenge of textile waste.

A diagram showing how the linear fashion system creates waste and pollution along the supply chain.

Graphs from Greenpeace’s International Fashion Consumption Survey, “After the Binge, the Hangover: Insights into the Minds of Clothing Consumers”.

This infographic shows the molecular structure of polyester, cotton, elastane and polyurethane, all common materials used to make our clothes.

These illustrations come from the Green European Journal article ‘What to Wear? Why Fast Fashion is Costing the Earth’. It compares the environmental impact of an outfit in 2019 with the predicted environmental impact of an outfit in 2049 made using new environmentally friendly technologies.

Infographics from the World Resources Institute (WRI)’s article, “The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics”.

This diagram from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, sometimes called the “butterfly diagram”, illustrates resource flows in a circular economy.

Graphs and infographics from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation’s “Make Fashion Circular Report. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works to raise awareness of waste and pollution in our “take-make-dispose” system and build a framework for a new circular economy that is restorative and regenerative by design.

Graphs from the ThredUP 2020 Resale Report. ThredUP is the world’s largest online consignment and thrift store.