Future Fabrics Expo panel
Pop founder, Shazia Saleem was invited to be on a panel discussion at the Future Fabrics Expo in London. The discussion theme was policy ideas that could make a real impact without dampening business innovation.
The discussion was moderated by Tamara Cincik, founder and CEO of the Fashion Roundtable and the panel also included John McNally MP, Environmental Spokesperson for the SNP, member of the Environment Audit Committee and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion and Mike Buckley, Director - Campaign Central & Director - Independent Commission on UK-EURelations
The main policy ideas put forward by Shazia were:
compulsory labelling for fossil fuel fabrics to enable and inform consumer choice as customers often don’t know that fabrics such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, fleece, lycra have fossil fuel origins
a bolder policy would be a tax on all synthetic fabrics
The Future Fabrics Virtual Expo is tradeshow and online resource for a curated range of sustainable fabrics and key information regarding sustainability issues in the textile industry, rigorously researched by The Sustainable Angle .
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