Why Upcycled Fashion?

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UpCycling: Taking something and reusing or recycling it in a way that increases its value.

Why is this important?

Think of all the waste we create by making something new. Take clothing manufacturers for example. Every year, more than 20 million tons of post-consumer textiles go to waste. Every week, the average textile factory produces 60,000 pounds of pre-consumer waste. Every day, piles of excess fabric cuttings in landfills grow higher. This includes sustainable clothing as well.

Sustainable Fashion:
Those Organic cotton T's you feel so great about wearing? Well it takes about 400 gallons of water to make just one. The Denim Jeans you love so much? They take about 1800 gallons. Shocked? I am. Supporting sustainable fashion is great. It is much better than traditional manufacturing. But when you break it down it still is not the best way to go.

Zero-Waste Fashion:
This new up and upcoming trend is a process of making a garment leaving no scraps behind. All materials are used and zero waste goes into a land fill. Great option if you have to have something new.

Eco-Fi Fabric:
A little better than Zero-waste. Eco-Fi fabric is made from plastic bottles. Yes the ones you so fashionably toted around a few years ago. The ones in the landfills. Eco-Fi takes those plastic bottles right back out of the landfill and turns them in to several kinds of fabric for many different uses. Again the process of making the fabric creates a drain on the Eco-system, but this is balanced out by the emptying of landfills factor.

The best for last...

Upcycled Fashion:
Using waste and not creating more waste, or using a substantial amount of energy?!! How could it get any better? Bonus! Feel good about what you are buying and wearing. Know that you are making a difference. Double bonus!! Save some cash. Make your own upcyced fashion. Your closet is full of possibilities.

My goal at KennaKristine is to change the way people think about what they have. Also to learn along with everyone ways to appreciate what we already have. What you have can also be what you want.