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Up Boutique thrift store fights fast fashion
Thursday 18 February 2021
Alana Ramlal, manager of Up Boutique at Queen s Park Oval, Port of Spain, shows some of the work clothes available at the boutique. PHOTOS BY AYANNA KINSALE -
The fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world; the oil and energy industry is the first.
The UN Environment Programme s 2018 article Putting the brakes on fast fashion, said: The fashion industry produces 20 per cent of global waste water and ten per cent of global carbon emissions.
This waste is more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.
Approximately 2,000 gallons of water is used to make a pair of jeans, making textile dyeing the second largest polluter of water.
Local heart-made gifts
Junckollage Gypsy Caravan gift shop at the Queen s Park Oval. PHOTOS BY SUREASH CHOLAI
THIS year crafters have been furiously at work producing for a number of different reasons. Some lost their jobs during the pandemic and turned to their crafting skills for an income, while others, under work-at-home orders, took to craft therapy to calm their nerves and soothe the pandemic stress.
The result? A variety of artisan crafts ready to be sold as Christmas presents.
Newsday visited the Junckollage Gypsy Caravan housed in One Yoga at the Oval, Woodbrook, on December 11 to see how sales were going for Christmas.