Kate Ward shares her research to show how mending helps save our resources. Kate has also shared this research on her blog so you can do additional reading about how textile manufacturing techniques pollute our planet. By extending the life of your clothes by months or by years, lessens your carbon foot print. What you pay for clothes impacts the working conditions of factory workers. The less you pay for ready to wear goods, the less factory workers are paid and their working conditions remain poor. #mendmarch run by Kate Sekules is a great way to take up visible mending one step at a time.