| Term | Definition |
|---|
| outworkers | people who dont work directly for a company |
| outworkers' conditions | poor pay, long hours, no benefits |
| how outworkers are paid | piecework |
| what is piece work | getting paid by the number of garments produced |
| fair trade products | goods made by people who receive a fair price |
| what does the price of fair trade goods reflect | the cost of making the goods |
| practices often used to make fair trade goods | good environmental practices |
| sustainability | using natural resources in a way that doesnt degrade them |
| recycling in a textiles context | breaking down textile waste/ unwanted iteems and making new products from them |
| what recycling can create | more pollution |
| an example of reusing | wearing second hand clothes |
| repurposing | using textile items in new ways |
| overruns | when a company makes more garments than needed |
| offcuts | scraps left over after cutting garments out |
| reverse garbage | selling clean waste from the industry which would otherwise become landfill |
| ethical behaviours | not funding injustice |
| sustainable products | those that ensure the environment is not degraded by the way a product is made |
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