The Cost of Carbon: Radio 4 speaks to the Centre for Sustainable Fashion

On Ying Lai – a finalist of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashioning the Future Awards 2009

In the aftermath of the Copenhagen Climate Summit Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ grapples with how to calculate the Carbon Foot Print of everyday items – last week the milk industry and electrical items were under the spotlight – this week they focused on the humble cotton T-Shirt.  Alex Mcintosh, Business Support Manager for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion based here at LCF, was invited on the programme for his expert opinion about the environmental impact of clothing. Alex spoke about the high carbon footprint involved in making one T-Shirt and urged the consumer to re-think fast and cheap fashion. Also interviewed on the programme were Mike Barry, the man behind the hugely successful Marks & Spencer Plan A campaign, eco fashion specialist Continental Clothing and Ewan Murray from the Carbon Trust.

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For more info on the contributors please see:

http://www.sustainable-fashion.com/

http://www.continentalclothing.com/

http://plana.marksandspencer.com/

http://www.carbontrust.co.uk