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"the average american throws away 81 pounds of clothes a year" WHO and WHERE are these people bc i dont think i know anybody that unhinged oh my god
factoid actually just statistical error. Becky Influencer who throws away over 10,000 lbs of clothes each day is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Ok so. This threw me into a spiral and wanted to do my own research. Sorry OP if this is too much of a diversion.
If you look into it the quote is accurate for 2018
More than a few publications have picked up on the statistic like this one
The implication here is that people are *personally* throwing away 81 lbs of clothes throughout the course of the year in their own homes. However if you click through to their source right there in the EPA estimates you get a study that was published in 2016 drawing from data collected in 2014 that analyses specifically solid waste in municipal landfills.
It’s a huge 30 year long study to get data on the different kinds of materials and how much has been thrown away in municipal landfills, how much has been recycled, greenhouse emissions etc. but I’m going to focus on this table which has the data for the material breakdown from 2014
Here we have the breakdown of millions of tons per category in that year in municipal waste. And here…
…is where they are getting that number.
11.95 millions of tons of non-durable good textile solid waste. Which if you do the numbers on it comes out to 75.16 lbs per person (using 2014 population statistics). That does indeed seem like a lot and if you follow the trend line established elsewhere in the paper you can easily conclude that means 81 lbs per person in 2018. However let’s tug at that thread a little
Other forms of textiles fall into this category, not just clothes. So rugs and mats and curtains may be included (which are a heavier weight of fabric in general) but also…
Commercial and institutional sources are included. The Old Navy down the block only sold half of last years inventory? That’s in the count. The hospital replacing bedsheets and scrubs? That’s in the count. All of the waste throughout the municipal area is being counted so it’s less of a measure of what clothing is being bought by individual consumers and much more a count of the collective production of clothing.
Yes, fast fashion is in fact the driver of a whole industry of waste but this number isn’t a calculation of that. In fact the deeper you try to dig in it’s very clear that fashion brands produce a lot of pollution and are very good at obscuring numerically how much. Is the figure closer to 60 lbs a person, 13 lbs a person? Literally it’s anyone’s guess.
When it comes to the personal impact of fashion consumption do your best to move away from buying several outfits a season and you’re far less of a problem than the statistics make you out to be. Mend what you want to keep, donate what you don’t, any repurpose into dust towels anything that’s falling apart.
And when it does finally fall apart on you I PROMISE you are doing your best to make that garment more than worth it’s weight in waste. That is what garments are designed to do for centuries. Work, and then wear out.
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The fact that the cat fell out and was like “oh shit wait, let me back in” makes it so much better. They’re not just pleasantly tolerating this, it’s a theme park attraction for cats
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This works best if you keep windows closed.
Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.
This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.
https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html
A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to
If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.
@thebibliosphere, this might be helpful for you…?
Oh hey, the triangle one looks interesting.
I made extensive use of these last year. Lifesaver.
With nylon stockings scarce, women would paint their legs so it looked like stockings, 1940′s
Fabric by Vlisco
1. Design by Fanny Mandina 2-3. Design by Francel Guezodje 4. by Lanina (IG: la_nina_lanina )
Anni Albers, Pasture, 1958, mercerized cotton, 14 × 15 ½ in. (35.6 × 39.4 cm)
Developing countries are not ‘developing’ but recovering from European colonialism.
Textile Fragment (with braided selvedge) Egyptian, ca. 4th-5th centuries CE Undyed linen and purple wool, plain and tapestry weave
These wooden bathing suits pictured here in 1929, were made to help buoyancy.
Fragment of Printed Linen, 15th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art
Rogers Fund, 1909 Size: Overall: 6 ½ × 9 ½ in. (16.5 × 24.1 cm) Medium: Linen
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/463242
In New York, state laws prevented children younger than 14 from working in the factories. But in workshops set up in private homes, no such regulations existed. Thus, after their “work day” had ended, children often took home large bundles of unfinished garments from the factories so that they could finish them at home.
Andrew Kayser Night Swimming (2021) Oil on canvas Courtesy THK Gallery.
Aminat and Jassira by Jameela Elfaki
A weaver works on a carpet at a carpet workshop in Isfahan, Iran