Category: ETHICAL REBEL
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Fashion is the second largest industrial polluter on the planet
Fashion is the second largest industrial polluter on the planet: noxious gases from synthetic fibres, microplastics, chemicals and waste
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Roz Edwards interviews Ethical Rebel
Roz Edwards interviews Ethical Rebel Interview about the Plastics and Pollution Zine and the hidden plastics in our clothes
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Reducing Plastics with a Deposit Return Scheme
Reducing plastics with a Deposit Return Scheme seems like a no-brainer. If people can get paid to return their plastic containers, they’re less likely to throw them away or mislay them. There’ll be less plastic, waiting to be recycled, clogging up cupboards and precious storage space in increasingly smaller houses. (Most young people cite lack…
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Choosing to eradicate slave labour from fashion
Garment workers earn less than 25% of the wage needed to support a family’s basic needs. A fair living wage means a 400% wage increase.
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Don’t Buy that Dress!
Don’t Buy that Dress! is a fun little anime with a serious message. Tracey Dockree created the video for Fashion Revolution Week.
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#areyouclueless
#areyouclueless is a Clueless meme raising awareness that some fashion brands and retailers make their clothes using unethical practices
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Hashtag Revolt Hackathon – Fashion Revolution Week
The Hashtag Revolt Hackathon is a 3 day campaign challenge 17th – 20th April kicking off Fashion Revolution week.
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Who Made My Clothes magazine
Who Made My Clothes magazine is an ethical fashion magazine looking at the people behind the clothes we wear
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Slave Free Jeans
Most of us have a favourite pair of jeans. Many of us live in them. Yet slave free jeans are a rare commodity. There is a risk of forced labour being used at every stage of the process in creating a pair of jeans. Denim is made from cotton and 9 out of the top…
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Slave Free Lent
This Easter I decided to do #SlaveFreeLent. Over 40 million people are thought to be in slavery, many producing the food and other goods we buy every day.
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Student Take Over
Nearly 50 young people at Cornwall College took part in the Student Take Over for the Issue 02 series of Ethical Rebel.
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The need for Ethical Rebels
The industrial revolution in Victorian England has been well documented by authors such as Charles Dickens and is generally associated with an era of abject poverty, abusive employers, high levels of pollution, dangerous factories with frequent accidents that maim or kill employees, workers forced to live in slums and a lucky man is one who…
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Letter to the High Street
Dear High Street, Before I buy any of your products please tell me whether the garment worker who produced your clothes: Many garment workers earn less than 25% of the wage needed to support a family’s basic needs even when working full time. To obtain a fair living wage they need to negotiate a 400% wage increase. Do…
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Clothing needed by Help Refugees
Clothing needed by Help Refugees: trousers (sizes 28-34), walking boots (sizes 40-43), jackets and waterproofs, leggings & tops
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Clothing needed by Attika Human Support
Clothing needed by Attika Human Support: warm dry clothes and shoes to survive cold and rainy winters; lightweight clothing and shoes for the hot summers.
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Clothing Wanted by Dunkirk Refugee Womens Centre
Clothing wanted by Dunkirk Refugee Womens Centre for women and children: leggings, joggers, tracksuit bottoms, socks (unused), gloves, waterproof ski suits
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Clothing Needed by Mobile Refugee Support
Clothing needed by Mobile Refugee Support: Waterproof Jackets, Waterproof Pants, Hooded Ponchos, Underpants, Thin Socks, Shoes and Trainers size 7-11.
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Shoes Wanted
Shoes wanted by charities: the homeless, refugees and women in shelters have no spare clothes. Often walking is their only form of transport.
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Clothing Wanted by Open Hearts Open Borders
Clothing wanted by Open Hearts Open Borders for refugees and asylum seekers in Europe and those arriving or already living in the South West.
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Bedding needed for Homeless in Cornwall
St Petroc’s Society is a charity supporting the homeless in Cornwall. Anyone wishing to donate is asked to call the centre first on 01872 264153.