Team: Matteo und Alex
Goal: The Goal is to share the clothes with each other to reduce the embodied energy and the resources needed to produce new clothes.
Reason: Nowadays people buy or order too many clothes. This is bad for our environment as we use many resources and emit a lot of Co2 during transportation. With our idea we want to reduce this sort of consumption.
Saved resources: Let us imagine a cotton shirt that weighs around 200g. To get the cotton for this one shirt, about half a kilo of raw cotton is needed. To grow this amount of cotton, an average of about 7m² of land is needed. Seven square meters of land are therefore needed to produce the raw material for a normal cotton shirt alone. To get to the finished product, however, several steps are still missing, such as sewing the fabrics and transport from the country of production to the shops. All these steps consume different amounts of energy and so, in total, almost 11 kilograms of CO2 are emitted in the life of a cotton shirt. With our idea you could save all the energy and resources!
Our idea: Our idea is to use an application developed by us to give the clothes of the population to other people for free or for little money. You are probably wondering how this works? You register in the app and then you can chat with others about costs and how or where the clothes are handed out.
The whole project has many advantages. Some of them can sell their old clothes for free or even for a small profit and poorer people can also get wearable clothes. But the most important thing is that our environment is protected.
Now it's your turn. The development of the app is currently in the final phase. You can help us by promoting the app for example via social media etc. Let's save our environment for a better future for all of us.