Fashion DIET: Upcycling in fashion: Advantages and students’ approaches (PDF)

The amount of waste created by the fashion industry is truly significant. Much of this waste still ends up in landfills or is incinerated. This represents a loss from a production effort which uses millions of tons of water and kilowatts of energy, and has a negative impact on the environment. In this context, upcycling is a valuable way to reduce this huge amount of textile waste and the negative impacts it has. Upcycling is the creative recovery of materials of any kind, fabrics or garments, that can become the starting point for different products and new creations. The lesson has five modules: 1) Too much waste in fashion!, 2) The importance of recycling in fashion, 3) Why upcycling?, 4) What to be done in upcycling! and 5) The wonderful world of upcycling.