CHARLOTTE — Tucked into the Innovation Barn, the Springclean workshop is where CT Anderson loves to create.
The textile upcycling nonprofit makes new clothes, pillows, bags, and anything the volunteers can think up. As long as it’s something fresh and new, Anderson thinks it’s worth resale.
“I am the target market,” she said. “I am somebody who likes shopping. I like new things, I’m into fashion but I also don’t want to contribute to the degradation of our planet.”
Fashion often does contribute to climate change. The industry accounts for about 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the clothes we throw out pile up quickly. Working in corporate sustainability, Anderson was acutely aware of the issue.
“I realized that what I was doing in my outside business activities were in direct conflict with what I did during the day for a living which was combat climate change,” she said.
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