Did you know about 15% of fabric intended for clothing ends up on the cutting room floor as textile offcuts?
For decades, about 15% of fabric intended for clothing has ended up on the cutting room floor of tailors and fashion designers as textile offcuts (waste). This waste is usually being neglected and in a research carried out by @thegreens, we realized that about 1600 – 4000kgs of textile offcuts is produced every month by the more than 800 tailors and fashion designers of Bamenda.
Most of this waste gets burned or thrown in the landfill and this has greatly contributed to environmental degradation and accelerated climate change.