Team Limerick Clean Up has designs on a greener Christmas

Pictured above: John Power, James Cormacan, Team Limerick Clean Up, Richard Lynch and Amanda Healy have the upcoming festive season all sewn up through their participation in an innovative upcycling project which will take place in the Hunt Museum on Sat 6th December from 12.30 – 16.00.

Richard Lynch and Terry Ryan, first year student getting ready for the innovative upcycling project.

Team Limerick Clean Up with the help of students from the Fashion Department of Limerick College of Further Education (LCFE) have the upcoming festive season all sewn up through their participation in an innovative upcycling project which will take place in the Hunt Museum on Sat 6^th December from 12.30 – 16.00.

The students are partnering with Team Limerick Clean Up to transform jumpers owned by members of the public into Christmas jumpers in an effort to re-use some of the estimated 1 million tonnes of textiles thrown away annually from domestic sources.

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And it doesn’t stop there. The following Saturday Team Limerick Clean Up will be in the Red Door Gallery, 12.30 – 16.00 with Rainbow Upcycling and Newcastelwest Tidy Towns.

“This workshop will demonstrate how to cleverly transform something you already have using fabrics, plastics and other materials that are segregated for recycling,” explained Noel Earlie of the JP McManus Benevolent fund.

“We all love to feel festive and Christmas jumpers have become very fashionable whether you are participating in a family event or partaking in the 12 Pubs Of Limerick. Team Limerick Clean Up is encouraging you to stand out from the crowd and create something unique for yourself or for someone else using materials that would otherwise become waste,’’ continued Noel.

“All people need to do next Saturday is come along with their jumper to the Hunt Museum, choose a design with the fashion team and watch as their jumper is quickly transformed into a festive one for free. All material used to transform the jumpers will be from the recycling waste stream, except a little bit of glitter and glue.

‘‘Fashion trends are forever changing and many items such as seasonal jumpers quite quickly become waste. This is the second year that LCFE have been involved in an initiative like this and we are delighted that this initiative will go toward the Limerick CityCentre Tidy Towns application 2015’’ added Mia Satama Head of Fashion in LCFE.

Richard Lynch who is honoured to be part of the campaign.

Textiles represent between 3% – 5% of the household waste stream even though it is estimated that an item of clothing still has 70% of its useful life left after it has been discarded. Meanwhile, over 70% of the world’s population use second hand clothes.

Richard Lynch of I Love Limerick was honoured to be part of the campaign. Richard has been part of numerous campaigns in the past to help keep Limerick clean and taking care of the environment is something he feels very strongly about.

Team Limerick Cleanup was launched at the Limerick Going for Gold Awards in September by Rugby Legend Paul O Connell.  It is a JP McManus Benevolent Fund initiative in conjunction with Limerick City & County Council’s Environment Department.

For more information visit www.teamlimerickcleanup.ie
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