ICYMI: LAWMA Unveils Strategy to Handle Lagos’ Growing Textile Waste Crisis https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/04/lawma-unveils-strategy-to-handle-lagos.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #TextileWaste #Sustainability #WasteManagement #Recycling #FastFashion
https://www.europesays.com/fr/979/ le patron de Primark démissionne après une enquête sur son «comportement» envers une femme – Libération #Business #Économie #Economy #FastFashion #France
@tansy Thank you for the link!
Fast fashion. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon #EconomicGrowth as an objective.
By Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, 12 December 2022
Excerpt: "The global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. This dynamic is driving climate change and ecological breakdown. High-income economies, and the corporations and wealthy classes that dominate them, are mainly responsible for this problem and consume energy and materials at unsustainable rates.
"Yet many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.
"GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet
"Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (#GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of #production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This approach, which has gained traction in recent years, can enable rapid #decarbonization and stop ecological breakdown while improving social outcomes. It frees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries in which growth might still be needed for development. Degrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic and socially destabilizing and occurs when growth-dependent economies fail to grow.
"Reports this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (#IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on #Biodiversity and #Ecosystem Services (#IPBES) suggest that degrowth policies should be considered in the fight against #ClimateBreakdown and #biodiversity loss, respectively. Policies to support such a strategy include the following.
"Reduce less-necessary production. This means scaling down destructive sectors such as #FossilFuels, mass-produced meat and dairy, #FastFashion, #advertising, #cars and aviation, including #PrivateJets. At the same time, there is a need to end the #PlannedObsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the #rich.
"Improve #PublicServices. It is necessary to ensure universal access to high-quality #HealthCare, #Education, #Housing, transportation, Internet, #RenewableEnergy and nutritious food. #UniversalPublicServices can deliver strong social outcomes without high levels of resource use.
"Introduce a green jobs guarantee. This would train and mobilize labour around urgent social and ecological objectives, such as installing renewables, insulating buildings, regenerating #ecosystems and improving social care. A programme of this type would end unemployment and ensure a just transition out of jobs for workers in declining industries or 'sunset sectors', such as those contingent on fossil fuels. It could be paired with a #UniversalIncome policy.
"Reduce working time. This could be achieved by lowering the retirement age, encouraging part-time working or adopting a four-day working week [and hybrid or remote work]. These measures would lower #CarbonEmissions and free people to engage in care and other welfare-improving activities. They would also stabilize employment as less-necessary production declines.
"Enable #sustainable development. This requires cancelling unfair and unpayable debts of low- and middle-income countries, curbing unequal exchange in international trade and creating conditions for productive capacity to be reoriented towards achieving social objectives.
"Some countries, regions and cities have already introduced elements of these policies. Many European nations guarantee free health care and education; Vienna and Singapore are renowned for high-quality public housing; and nearly 100 cities worldwide offer free public transport. Job guarantee schemes have been used by many nations in the past, and experiments with basic incomes and shorter working hours are under way in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.
"But implementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth — in a safe and just way — faces five key research challenges, as we outline here."
Read more:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AtJ87
#FourDayWorkweek #RemoteWork #HybridWork #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #RightToRepair #ProtectMotherEarth #CorporateColonialism #BuyLess #BuyNothing #LibraryOfThings #SolarPunkSunday
How to Turn an “#EconomicBlackout” Into an All-Out War on #CorporatePower
Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The #degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.
Jonah Valdez, February 28 2025
Excerpt: "Rooted in the work of American and European political theorists of the 1970s, the 'degrowth' movement criticizes a #capitalist system that seeks unending growth and profit, which has led to #ecological and #environmental ruin such as the impacts of #ClimateChange.
"Instead, it advocates for a system that prioritizes the needs of the #planet and its people, such as #housing, #education, and #healthcare. According to Jason Hickel, a leading advocate of degrowth and author of 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World,' the movement calls for reducing consumption and production of things that harm the planet such #FossilFuels, #SUVs, #PrivateJets, #mansions, #FastFashion, #IndustrialBeef, #CruiseShips, and the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex.
"While the term may be unfamiliar to many Americans, its core ideas have cropped up in the Green New Deal’s goals of a post-fossil fuel economy; the pandemic-era phenomenon of white-collar workers voluntarily quitting their jobs and working less; and the recent social media trend of '#NoBuy,' which encouraged people to purchase less and #repurpose more.
"'People are getting a sense that they’re ripped off, that they’re being taken advantage of and exploited as consumers,' said Aaron Vansintjan, co-author of 'The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism.' 'It is promising that people are responding to the current moment by showing their distrust of these corporations.'
"The boycott has drawn wide–ranging media coverage, along with the attention of some celebrities. It also caught the attention of #LindaSarsour, a progressive activist best known for organizing the 2017 #WomensMarch after #Trump’s first election.
"'It is an easy risk-free way to invite masses of people to act in reaction to the outrageousness of this Administration,' Sarsour told The Intercept in an email."
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/28/no-buy-nothing-corporation-boycott-capitalism-degrowth/
#CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #RepairCafes #LibraryOfThings #ReuseRepairRecycle #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #EnvironmentalDamage #USPol #WorldPol #CapitalismMustDie #PlannedObsolescence #ProtectMotherEarth
Inside Norway's bold bid to shift the EU on Shein.
"If a Norwegian business behaved like these companies, we would fine, or ultimately, ban them," Norway's climate minister told Euractiv in an interview.
Africa: Fast Fashion Fuelling Global Waste Crisis, UN Chief Warns: [UN News] Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck's worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second, the UN chief warned on Thursday. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJpFh0 #FastFashion #Sustainability #EnvironmentalCrisis #WasteManagement #FashionIndustry
Ik snap er niets van.
Ik maak me ook schuldig aan #fastfashion maar no way dat dat, zoals gesteld wordt, na 2x dragen afgeschreven kan worden. Ik heb kledingstukken die al 3 jaar meegaan.
Handle with care is het recept.
2/ Hier Werbung dazu. Mache ich, weil ich das auch erst auf Mastodon gelernt habe, denn wenn man das nicht weiß, findet man es auch nicht:
#Grundstoff. Ist fair gehandelte Öko-Kleidung. Ihr bezahlt nicht 50% oder mehr für die Marke, denn die steht nicht dran.
Ihr könnt dann fünf Pullover und fünf T-Shirts kaufen und dann habt ihr für Jahrzehnte Ruhe.
Viel Spaß beim Shoppen, aber dann ist auch gut!
76 kilogram per jaar, zo veel textiel koopt een gemiddeld Europees gezin met vier personen. Het gaat dan om kleren, schoenen en huishoudelijk textiel, zoals handdoeken of lakens. Dat komt overeen met maar liefst 19 kilogram per persoon, dat wil zeggen dat we elk jaar een zware reiskoffer aan nieuwe spullen kopen.
#kledij #fastfashion #milieu #consumentisme #vervuiling #tweedehands
Europeans are buying more clothes than ever before
Fast fashion is still in vogue in the EU. The European Environment Agency warns that this trend urgently needs to be countered
https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/europeans-are-buying-more-clothes-than-ever-before/51375150.html
3. It gives praise to entities that don't deserve it just because they are "European". Point in case: the certainly well-intentioned @goeuropean project, which recommends (among many very ethical companies) some really terrible "European alternatives", e.g.:
* #Volkswagen, #Audi, that built cheat software into their cars to make them look cleaner
* #Inditex, #Zalando, some of the worst #fastfashion polluters
* #RedBull, the drinks company owned by an Austrian far-right #billionaire
"Alors que le Sénat devait l’examiner à partir du 26 mars, la proposition de loi ne figure pas à l’agenda et le gouvernement ne l’a pas inscrite à l’ordre du jour du Palais Bourbon. Où est-elle passée ?"
#shein #lobby #fastfashion #Castaner
https://reporterre.net/Pourquoi-la-loi-anti-fast-fashion-est-retardee
Est-ce que tu penses qu'il y a moyen de faire des fringues plus qualitatives, made in France, plus éco-responsables et plus durables, mais pour moins cher ?
"Non je ne crois pas.
C'est ça qui est terrible, si tu veux faire baisser le prix des vêtements, derrière y a un truc que tu ne paies/respecte pas. Que ce soit le travail des gens, ou la nature.
C'est ce qui ne va pas dans la réflexion actuelle : on veut absolument faire baisser le prix des objets. C'est pas ça qu'il faut faire. Il faut faire augmenter le niveau de vie des gens.
Faut qu'ils soient mieux payés, ça veut dire qu'il faut que l'école coûte moins cher, qu'il y ait plus de services publics qui soient plus performants, ...
C'est cette approche-là qu'il faut avoir."
(Et ça vaut pour tous les objets de notre quotidien)
Fast fashion : Les lobby font la loi ? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj_2PVxkc6I
> La fast fashion est un important enjeu environnemental, économique et un danger pourla filière textile française, mais une loi pour la réguler est menacée. Aux côtés de Julia Faure, cofondatrice de la marque de vêtements éthiques Loom et coprésidente du Mouvement Impact France, on décrypte les enjeux, les blocages politiques et les solutions pour une filière plus responsable.
How much would you pay for a sustainable sweater?
For #FastFashion companies, this is a crucial question. Manufacturing #sustainable products is expensive, so firms want to know their investment will be worth it. But, according to recent research by Mehmet Gumus, Professor of Operations Management at McGill University, prices dictate consumer choices above all else – even if they value sustainability, in principle.
“Customers prioritize sustainability a lot...
https://delve.mcgill.ca/listen/sustainable-fast-fashion-gumus/
La loi sur la fast-fashion vidée de sa substance au Sénat
https://projetarcadie.com/loi-fast-fashion-detricotee-senat/
#Shein #DirectSénat #FastFashion #Esclavage
