STUDENTS CREATE SUSTAINABLE FASHION FROM WASTE PLASTIC

Caption: White and green dress on mannequin created by student using waste plastic

Fashion students at NWSLC’s creative arts Hinckley Campus have designed and made a dress using plastic packaging items collected from around the college as part of a Plastic Free Schools sustainability competition.

Students and staff rose to the challenge of gather as much single use and waste plastic materials as they could from around Hinckley Campus. Although teams are trying as hard as they can to choose plastic-free items, including ordering water in recyclable cartons, some materials such as milk bottles and lids from the kitchens made up a large part of the collection.  Students collected soft drinks and water bottles, ad plastic fruit and yoghurt cartons.

Once the plastic horde had been handed over, Fashion students Faythe Leach, Autumn Rogerson, Caitlin Horabin, Isabelle Ward and Minal Godhaniya got to work creating a unique dress design based on the concept of a 1920s flapper dress mainly crafted from milk bottles and their green lids.

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