Vote now for Dr Pammi Sinha in the INDEX Design to Improve Life A
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:18:00 BST
Dr Pammi Sinha joins Dr David Swann (previously featured) as one of the 60 international finalists for the INDEX Design to Improve Life Awards.
Dr Pammi Sinha, Reader in Fashion Management with the School of Art, Design and Architecture, has designed a system seeking a solution to the global problem of textile waste. With her multi-disciplinary team, their project ‘Recycle Sub Sahara’ links the textiles industries of developed economies such as the UK with developing economies with little or no system of collecting waste textiles resulting in them being landfilled.
The system raises the potential for overseas and inward investment, contributing to economic development. This is due to new opportunities for textile recycling and reprocessing industries to be developed with the potential for environmental benefits, stemming from the reduction of raw materials, water, dyes and other chemicals required for new textiles to be made.
You can find out more about this and vote online here: Index Award by simply clicking on the ‘Like’ arrow button. An individual can recast their vote every 24 hours.
These prestigious global awards inspire, educate and engage people in using design to improve life skills to develop sustainable solutions to global and local challenges.
Created by Denmark in 2002, INDEX: Design to Improve Life® is in sync with the values and principles that made Danish design widely renowned in the last century, focusing on humanism, social understanding and democratic thinking.
To find out more about INDEX visit Design to Improve Life
