Thank you for contacting me about making fashion fairer. The UK supports and wants to encourage sustainable fashion. The Government recognises the importance of buying practices which do not harm the planet.
Fashion is the third-largest manufacturing industry in the world and by some calculations, it produces up to 10% of the world's emissions.
According to the Valuing Our Clothes report analysing the contents of British wardrobes by the Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP), we purchased 1,130,000 tonnes of new clothing last year in the UK. Meanwhile, an estimated £30 billion worth of our clothing hangs about gathering dust, because people simply don't have time to wear it all or don't really like what they are buying.
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