MORAL FIBRE
Jan 27, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS Sharon Stephenson.
It was the one percent that did it. When Bernadette Casey learned that only one percent of used clothing is recycled into new fibres globally, the Wellingtonian realised she had to act.
“I was shocked that 90 percent of textiles can be reused but most end up in landfills, including polyester, which takes hundreds of years to break down,” she says.
That was back in 2008, when the textile importer and fashion lover was asked to write a chapter about sustainable textiles for
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