It is a problem that parents of small children know well: almost as soon as you have bought an item of clothing, they have grown out of it.
“Children grow seven sizes in their first two years,” said Ryan Mario Yasin, 31. “There is so much waste.”
Yasin, an aeronautical engineering graduate from Imperial College London, is one of a number of scientists, designers and entrepreneurs attempting to tackle the astronomical waste generated by the fashion industry.
Imperial’s White City campus in west London, which provides resources for start-ups, is becoming a hub of sustainable fashion solutions. Appropriately, it is a short walk from Westfield London, Europe’s biggest shopping centre and a temple of consumerism.
The clothing sector is one of the biggest polluters,…