Does fashion harm the environment?

According to Joe Millar, organiser of the Waste Debate, various issues arise from the question 'Does fashion harm the environment?' including:

What difficulties arise from the prevalence of cheap clothes available on the High Street?

Do our fashion habits encourage us to dispose of clothes quickly and create waste?
Is enough effort made to recycle clothes (is there enough information available about this)?

If we chose alternative sources for clothes, would there be negative consequences for manufacturers and the people they employ, as well as damage for the country economically at a time of growing economic crisis?

Speakers include Martin Collins, North East Regional Policy Coordinator for the Green Party and Doug Miller, Lecturer from the University of Northumbria School of fashion

The debate will start at 7.30 in the Basement of Newcastle University's Students' Union building.

Everyone who attends is asked to bring a bag of clothing which can be swapped at the end - so there is something for everyone!

Any donations on the door and money raised through our tombola will be going towards Send a Cow, a charity which runs sustainable agriculture programmes across the world in an aim to reduce poverty.