Where do you shop?
Will you still continue to shop, knowing the real cost?
What goes into the shirt on your back
Above is a timeline showing how your favorite t-shirt travels from a seed in the ground to a shirt on your back. If you would like to read each caption, click on it in order to pause the timeline.
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES?
How You Can Help
- Consider buying American made items, according to Made in USA forever Foreign labor standars allow unsafe worker conditions in many countires. When you buy American you support not only American manufactuers but also American workers, safe working conditions, and child labor laws.
- According to An article posted on Huffpost Clothes can be saved from the landfill and recycled similarly to plastics, paper and cans, sorted for further use as secondhand clothes, commerical polishing cloths or reprocessed fibers in upholstery and insulation. In addition to making tax-deductible donations to long-standing organizations with neighborhood collection centers such as Goodwill and Dress for Sucesss, San FRancisco residents can deposit unwatned clothing in one hundred different collection bins around the city handled by textile collector and processor I:CO, and New York City, Boston and WAshington D.C REsidents can do so in their building through bins provided by Wearable Collections.
- Consider shopping in your own closet! A new shirt,dress, or coat can brighten your day, or even bouy you for an entire season. As can the discovery of a forgotten favorite that you already have. Boost your wardrobe-and your wallet-by bringing back into rotatoin the solid pieces hanging in the back of your closet.