Langara’s Beyond 49 Community Day was a huge success for the Makerspace T-Shirt UP-cycle booth.
We have only 1 shirt left from 150 T-shirts.
The t-shirts were purchased from Valu-Village (they gave us 50% off),
Each participant choose a t-shirt (usually with something printed on it) they liked,
they then were given a vinyl cut “Up Cycle – Makerspace” graphic we cut with our vinyl cutter.
Their job was to “weed it”, that is removing all of the negative vinyl. They then took the shirt and laid it out onto the hot press, lined up the logo on it, and pressed it onto the shirt.
There was no charge for the shirts, but there was a strong message behind it.
The fashion industry is a huge burden on the environment, so up-cycling and repurposing is a great way to help the environment. Hopefully it will reduce buying new shirts, and throwing out the old.
Environment facts of the fashion industry:
- The Top 10 Polluting Industries In The World:
- The Product Manufacturing (includes garment) is Rated 9th.
- The Dye Industry is Rated 10th.
- The transportation required to get a clothing item into the hands of the consumer is why apparel production accounts for 10 percent of worldwide carbon emissions.
- Textile production produces 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas every year.
- Gathering the materials for wood-based fabrics like rayon, modal and viscose contributes to deforestation.
- Popular polyester fabrics washed in domestic washing machines shed plastic microfibers make their way to into drinking water and aquatic food chains (including in fish and shellfish eaten by humans).
- Cotton, another eminently popular material, is a pesticide and water-intensive crop; the amount of water required to make one cotton t-shirt is the same as one person drinks in two-and-a-half years.
So Up-Cycle . RePurpose . ReUse!
