An announcement from the Office of the Pro-Rector for Strategic Planning and Sustainability
📣 A reminder to the UM Community 📣
Charity drive whilst promoting sustainable practices
You are all invited to bring clean clothes, handbags or accessories for the SUMMER ☀️ season.
The items must be in good condition and which can be reused and sold at the INSPIRE Charity events.
We will collect these items on behalf of Inspire until 31 May 2025 📅.
Start rummaging through your wardrobes and closets for SUMMER items which have been sitting on shelves and hanging in wardrobes but can be ✨ given a new lease of life ✨.
Several individuals and entities have come forward and offered to collect the summer clothes and accessories. The list of the 📌collection points 📌 across campus is:
Faculty of Arts - Faculty of Arts Foyer
Faculty for the Built Environment - Entrance to Faculty of Built Environment Building
Faculty of Economics, Management & Accountancy - FEMA Building, 4th Floor, Room 426
Faculty of Education - Old Humanities Building, 1st Floor under the digital signage
Faculty of Engineering - Foyer of the Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Health Sciences - Reception area
Faculty of ICT - Reception at the entrance to Faculty of ICT
Faculty of Science - Faculty of Science foyer
Faculty for Social Wellbeing - Ground Floor FEMA (New Humanities B) to the left of the entrance behind the stairs
Institute of Earth Systems - Reception area of Chemistry Building
Library - Foyer
Marketing, Communications & Alumni Office - Reception on ground floor Main Administration Building
Office for Human Resources Management & Development - 1st Floor Administration Building near printer outside room 216A
What is there to gain from recycling and reusing clothes? ♻️
A reminder that the fashion industry is one of the biggest polluters on the planet.
Producing and processing of materials and fabrics generate greenhouse gases, which are primarily responsible for the global warming affecting the Earth 🌍.
Large volumes of waste water are generated through textile production.
Chemicals and fertilisers used in processing clothes also cause serious environmental damage especially when used in large quantities. By purchasing clothes which are not really needed, we contribute to the excessive cultivation of textile production and therefore overuse land.
