Recycling and environmental protection start from clothing

Buy as you like! Shop till your heart is content! Such phrases have become the common language of the world. In an era when cheap clothing is readily available, we are encouraged to simply throw clothes away once we get bored with them. "Anyway, it can be recycled and reused" is the public's attitude towards clothing. However, the recycling rate for clothing in Taiwan is only 1%. To address this, a place called Eco Tano ReCollections located in Taipei's Ximen District is committed to promoting the forgotten concept of "maintenance and repair" of clothing.

Eco Tano ReCollections is focused on teaching and is not engaged in selling things. The boss believes that until customers understand the production process and cycle of clothes at hand, they will always fall into the "buying things" model to solve the problem. Therefore, Eco Tano ReCollections teaches the whole process of recycling clothing and not only the production process. First of all, the teacher leads students to make a painstaking investigation of laundry labels to get to know the materials of their old clothing. After introducing the materials, the teacher talks about the production process and creative recycling, enabling students to better understand the role of sustainable clothing in environmental protection.

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再生做環保 從「衣」開始

喜歡就買，流行更買，成了全世界共同的時尚語言。在廉價衣物唾手可得的時代，穿膩就丟，反正回收可再利用便是大眾對待衣物的態度。在台灣衣物的回收再利用率只有1%，所以位在台北西門快時尚品牌聚集地的「田野間」，於是致力推廣被人們遺忘的衣物「保養與修繕」概念。

田野間『只教不賣』，老闆認為如果沒有讓消費者理解手邊這些衣服的生產過程及循環歷程，便很容易再落入以『買東西』來解決問題的模式。因此田野間的舊布再生教學，不僅只著重於製作過程。首先老師會藉由「抽絲剝繭」帶領學員從研讀洗標、認識舊衣材質開始，後續再談創造與運用。使學員更加明白永續衣物做環保背後的理念。

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