ECF Circular Fashion Education Toolkit
Online Learning Resources for Students and Teachers
What does Hong Kong’s fashion sustainability scene look like?
43 students from 17 secondary schools in Hong Kong came together to learn, plan and create a series of six educational videos about circular fashion. The videos introduce the environmental challenges facing the fashion industry, and explore how the ‘circular fashion model’ is an alternative to more sustainably make, buy and wear our clothes.
The videos specially highlight the issue in a Hong Kong context with statistics, visuals, narrations, roleplaying and case study interviews with various local stakeholders in fashion, to provide a broad understanding of the concept of ‘circular fashion’ from different perspectives.
TEXTILE WASTE
Globally, one truckful of textile waste is sent to landfill every second of the day. Here in Hong Kong, 170 tonnes of clothing waste are discarded daily (as of 2019). This not only adds pressure to the city’s overflowing landfills, but also wastes the many natural resources used throughout the production process.
RESOURCE SCARCITY
Making one cotton T-shirt uses up to 2,720 litres of water – that’s one person’s drinking water for three years! Are there any sustainable alternatives that allow us to produce these basic necessities without the same environmental toll?
OVERPRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Fashion may be known as a glamorous industry, but its impact can be anything but. With many of us caught in a cycle of buying more clothes but wearing them less often, can we nurture a more sustainable mindset when it comes to our wardrobes?
Behind the scenes
The educational videos were produced as part of the Redress x Moonlight Video Production Summer Workshops in 2021, with the help of the following student producers:
| Alina Ahamed, Belilios Public School | Leung Pui Man Chloe, Diocesan Girls’ School |
| Alison Wong, St. Paul’s Secondary School | Leung Sze Wing, St. Paul’s Secondary School |
| Ally Cheung, Kellett School | Leung Yan Lok, Audrey, Belilios Public School |
| Anannya Dixit, French International School | Lo Natalie Kei Wing, Diocesan Girls’ School |
| Angelyn Cunningham, YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College | Mako Kawada, Renaissance College |
| Anna Yoonah Joung, Renaissance College | Mattia Muggeri, Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong |
| Annabel Brown, Kellett School | Matty Koon, St. Paul’s Secondary School |
| Audrey Yeung, Sha Tin College | Mavis Tsang, Diocesan Girls’ School |
| Beatrice Villaflor, Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong | Michelle Fong, The Harbour School |
| Bernice Wong, Diocesan Girls’ School | Mira Chan, Canadian International School of Hong Kong |
| Carolyn Lee, German Swiss International School | Mischa Yu, Kellett School |
| Celine Pretorius, Sha Tin College | Serena Lam, Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong |
| Cheng Cheuk Tung Jocelyn, St. Paul’s Secondary School | Tan Kee Hun, Singapore International School (Hong Kong) |
| Chikara Kameshima, West Island School | Thomas Robinson, West Island School |
| Deeya Bhasin, Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong | Tse Ho Shuen, St. Paul’s Secondary School |
| Fung Brenda, St. Paul’s Secondary School | Uni Kang, Renaissance College |
| Hannah Wu, Island School | Wesley Ross, Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong |
| Ho Yan Nok Anthea, Diocesan Girls’ School | Wong Tsz Ching Vivian, Diocesan Girls’ School |
| Jasmine Mata, YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College | Zhang YuRong, Alexis, German Swiss International School |
| Joey Ren, Chinese International School | Zhou Jiatong, Justina, Diocesan Girls’ School |
| Jolene Hui, Sha Tin College | Zoe Dalton, YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College |
| Leah Tam, Belilios Public School |
ABOUT REDRESS
Redress is a pioneering Hong Kong based environmental charity with a mission to educate and empower the fashion industry and consumers to reduce clothing’s negative environmental impact by shifting to circular solutions. Our education programme focuses on educating consumers in Hong Kong of all ages about their fashion footprint and empowering them to drive change through circular solutions like buying more responsibly, donating clothes for reuse, or shopping secondhand.
About the ECF Circular Fashion Education Toolkit
This bilingual education toolkit including a handful of student and teacher resources is funded by the Environment and Conservation Fund and the Environmental Campaign Committee. It was designed in consultation with teachers and curriculum advisors from the English Schools Foundation, the Education Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and our wider network of Hong Kong schools, who provided invaluable guidance, support and feedback.