Buying an Earth Day T-shirt won’t save the planet
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telegraph.co.ukrelaxed Earth Day tee, £22, doesn’t claim to be sustainably made in any way, nor is there any indication that its sale raises funds for any related causes.
The same appears to be the case with Demos’ £26.99 Earth Day T-shirt on Asos Marketplace. I hope this is just a failing to properly describe the product, but if not, there is so much wrong with this.
For a start, it’s just lazy product development, not to mention that buying anything to mark one occasion is not a sustainable way to shop.
The UK sends £140 million worth of clothes to landfill every year, so we all need to buy less and buy better - and of course donate or sell good quality clothes when we no longer want them so they can have a second life with someone else.Secondly, while.
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