{"id":460,"date":"2021-11-04T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/?p=460"},"modified":"2021-11-04T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:37:47","slug":"mearns-masters-campaigners-fair-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2021\/11\/04\/mearns-masters-campaigners-fair-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mearns Masters &#8211; Campaigners &#8211; Fair Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started our new Mearns Masters Block &#8211; Campaigners! We spent out lesson researching Fast Fashion around the world and how this impacts on workers and clothing company brands.<\/p>\n<p>Then we translated our research into an informative an eye-catching poster here are some of the facts that we discovered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;fast&#8221; in fast fashion refers to the speed that the clothes are manufactured by brands.<\/li>\n<li>Many sweatshop workers are forced to work 14-16 hours 7 days a week.<\/li>\n<li>The global fashion industry produces over 92 million tonnes of waste per year.<\/li>\n<li>In 2019, the Global market value of fast fashion was over 30 billion pounds.<\/li>\n<li>According to UNICEF, 170 million children are forced to work in the clothes production industry.<\/li>\n<li>93% of brands surveyed by the fashion checker are not paying their workers a living wage.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, 100 billion clothing items are made each year. However, the majority are discarded and most go to landfill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165932\/IMG_2557-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165932\/IMG_2557-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165932\/IMG_2557-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165932\/IMG_2557-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165932\/IMG_2557.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165937\/IMG_2559-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165937\/IMG_2559-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165937\/IMG_2559-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165937\/IMG_2559-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165937\/IMG_2559.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165942\/IMG_2561-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165942\/IMG_2561-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165942\/IMG_2561-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165942\/IMG_2561-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-464 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165947\/IMG_2564-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165947\/IMG_2564-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165947\/IMG_2564-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165947\/IMG_2564-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-465 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165952\/IMG_2567-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165952\/IMG_2567-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165952\/IMG_2567-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165952\/IMG_2567-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-466 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165956\/IMG_2569-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165956\/IMG_2569-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165956\/IMG_2569-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04165956\/IMG_2569-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-467 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04170000\/IMG_2571-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04170000\/IMG_2571-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04170000\/IMG_2571-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2021\/11\/04170000\/IMG_2571-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our class were shocked to find out about the working conditions in the factories of some of the most well-known brands in the world which we have shopped in ourselves!<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to gaining more insight into fast fashion and forming our own campaign which will focus on creating a sustainable form of clothing production and recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started our new Mearns Masters Block &#8211; Campaigners! We spent out lesson researching Fast Fashion around the world and how this impacts on workers and clothing company brands. Then we translated our research into an informative an eye-catching poster here are some of the facts that we discovered: The &#8220;fast&#8221; in fast fashion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2021\/11\/04\/mearns-masters-campaigners-fair-fashion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mearns Masters &#8211; Campaigners &#8211; Fair Fashion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mearns-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}