Melt Our Plastics Away
Today is the second day of Fashinnovation’s 2nd Worldwide Talks 2020, coinciding with World Ocean’s Day, which is a big part of today’s discussion, reducing environmental waste wherever possible, reducing carbon footprints, ultimately less pollution, and aiming for a world where no plastics are used.
The big story is reducing plastic, because of its long-standing reputation of being harmful to an animal’s lifespan, such as plastic material lingering in wetlands or on the ground where a duck’s entangled in plastic, and cannot move, leading to obstruction which ultimately leads to death.
Environmentalists and designers concern are that accessories and clothing are not made of earthly materials as much as possible, elements that can be easily broken down into the earth once their life cycle has passed, and reproduced into something new which in essence is recycling.
However, recycling was said to have very little impact on improving the environment as far as plastics are concerned, leading to the push for plastic-free fashion, a sustainable way to produce more eco-friendly collections, expanding also into collections where animals are not used, or harmed in any way.
The problem with plastics are they’re hard to break down, a plastic’s lifespan can stretch for hundreds of years, and one piece of plastic material can find itself lingering all around the world, creating more pollution, litter, or waste that accumulates over time.
Plastics are made of oil, plastics are extremely useful in essential ways like storing medical waste, medical supplies, medical cures, liquids, foods, and items that need to be protected from the elements, and let’s not forget how plastic has protected us from the spread of COVID19, so plastics need to stay where needed, but are being pushed out of fashion in order to eliminate waste, and encouraging fashion to me more sustainable, and real.