A Costume Professional's Guide to Plastic Free July

By Raquel Buriani

Here is a list of the resources we cited in our Plastic Free July posts, click on the quote for full context and credit.

We will update this post throughout the month as we add more plastic free research.

POST 1

• "...plastic packaging takes 400–500 years to degrade in nature..."

• "In the United States, online sales are led by Amazon and are expected to double within the next decade, representing nearly 25% of U.S. retail sales"

• "The steady growth in online shopping, driven by the ever-increasing popularity of the internet, is exacerbating the packaging problem even in the United States and Europe."

• Request plastic free packaging from Amazon.

POST 2

• "600 million plastic soda bottles worth of plastic are entering our waterway through detergent pods each year..."

• ‘...the hundreds of thousands of fibres that make up our clothing which have led to an estimated 1.4 million trillion plastic fibres in the ocean.’

• ‘... synthetic fabrics are lightweight, durable, affordable and flexible. But here’s the catch: every time they're washed, they shed tiny plastic fibres called microfibres, a form of microplastics—tiny pieces up to five millimetres in size.’

• Cora Ball

• Guppy Friend washing bag

• Girlfriend Collective washing machine filter

• Lint LUV-R washing machine filter

POST 3

• Filtrol washing machine filter

POST 4

• Materials That Linger: An Embodied Geography of Polyester

  Clothes

POST 5

• Corozo Buttons

• Mother of Pearl Buttons

• Medieval Fabric Buttons Tutorial

• Recycled and Sustainable Sequins

• Bioglitter

• Garment Hangers Harmful to Environment

• Production, Use, and fate of all plastics ever made

• Fast Facts about Plastic Pollution