Georgia Southern Sustainability Programs fighting fast fashion with campus thrift store | Newsroom

March 16, 2021

Sustainability Applications at Georgia Southern College is teaming up with pupil group Style Menagerie, a gaggle of style merchandising and attire design college students, to struggle quick style by internet hosting the primary campus thrift retailer on the Statesboro Campus. Clothes donations are at present being accepted by way of March 26 at varied places round campus.

Quick style is a textile development the place garments are mass-produced to be rapidly offered and thrown away. 

“Tons of textile waste will get dumped from individuals throwing away their garments, even those which might be calmly used, however extra clothes is continually being produced,” stated Geneisa Ragin, president of Style Menagerie. “This thrift retailer can assist our campus stop that improve of waste and provides college students a sustainable technique to donate and store that may discourage quick style manufacturing.”

Cami Sockow, Sustainability Applications coordinator, stated along with being wasteful, quick style is usually characterised by poor work situations, corresponding to underpayment, youngster labor, bodily and verbal abuse, and dealing lengthy hours. 

“The social prices of quick style are immensely underneath mentioned,” Sockow stated. “We largely miss the social dialog after we focus on sustainability, however this can be a nice instance of what number of social prices ensue with our dependancy to consumption. So whereas we pay a low financial value, we have to begin asking ourselves whether it is definitely worth the social and environmental ones.”   

Clothes donors will get buying credit on the thrift retailer for every merchandise they donate. The thrift retailer may even give buying credit for donations of nonperishable meals objects, hygiene merchandise and cleansing provides to the Eagle Necessities Meals Pantry.

The thrift retailer will likely be open March 31 and April 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. within the Russell Union Rotunda. For extra info on the credit score system and to see drop-off places, go to students.georgiasouthern.edu/LeadServe/sustainability/.