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Scroll down for details on how to enter the competition. The Foundation runs a project that aims to get us wearing clothes for longer and throwing fewer of them away. It has launched its Jeans Redesign project and has won £2 million in funding from the People’s Postcode Lottery’s Postcode Climate Challenge initiative.
Jeans Redesign brings together names from across the fashion world, including H and M, Gap and Wrangler, to make denim that is designed to be used longer and then remade, as well as improving the manufacturing process for workers and the environment. Sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur, who set up the Foundation, said: “Waste and disposability are woven into today’s economy fuelling climate change and pollution.
The Government must earmark £10 billion for 250,000 green apprenticeships over the next three years to minimise the long-term economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic, an environmental group says.
Ahead of Wednesday’s budget, Friends of the Earth said subsidising the apprenticeships would help meet the Government’s net zero by 2050 goals while staving off disastrous long-term youth unemployment.
Research commissioned by the charity with funding from the People’s Postcode Lottery found there are currently 500,000 16 to 24-year-olds out of work which could rise to one million by summer when the furlough scheme comes to an end.
According to modelling conducted by consultancy Transition Economics, one year’s unemployment for someone aged 18 to 20 could see them lose between £42,000 and £133,000 in earnings over the next 20 years.