At FTA we believe that knowledge is power. Once you’ve learned something, there’s no turning back. Since 2007 we have worked hard to educate industry stakeholders, as well as consumers about the social and environmental impacts of fashion.

• We buy 60% more clothing today than we did 20 years ago
• Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned
• Textile mills generate one-fifth of the world’s industrial water pollution
• Sweatshops, forced and child labour still exists
• Synthetic clothes shed trillions of microfibers into our rivers, lakes and oceans