How can we reduce the environmental impact of our clothes? Designer Eileen Fisher offers 7 easy tips

ASK A DESIGNER: What's the Easiest Way to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Our Clothes?

ecouterre.com 11 Apr '11, 12pm

How can we reduce the environmental impact of our clothes? Designer Eileen Fisher offers 7 easy tips

Garment care is an enormous environmental issue, but it’s also a personal one. We each use incredible amounts of water, cleaning products and energy on our clothes. Reducing that impact is something I’m trying to do every day. The way we care for our clothes has more impact on energy and water sources than a dye house , a factory, or a fleet of trucks . It’s easy to forget that wash water heads out to the sea, and dryers run on fossil fuels. Here are seven tips from all of us at

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