Recycled fibres to go mainstream
It's been a long time coming, but recycled fibres are slowly but surely coming into the fashion mainstream. For many years we have had a lot of interesting and sensible talking on this subject but the industry was not quite ready to take action. Now there are leading manufacturers pushing to make an impact in this area. Ted Baker have brought out a range produced almost entirely from recycled fibres. Students in our best fashion universities are demanding action -and this is why; 420 million plastic bottles are discarded every day -and that is just in Europe. The US discards a similar amount and I cannot find any official figures on the worldwide figure -but you can bet it will...