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The environmental and health impact of our school uniform is relevant to lots of subjects: geography, chemistry, biology, math. Ask your teachers for help while you're putting your presentation together. Ask them to look at drafts. Put your hand up and ask to present your findings to your classes.
Lobby your School
Ask your student councillor to put uniform sustainability on their agenda. Run for student council.
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Talk to your school's parents' association and ask them to support you.
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Ask for a meeting with your head teacher and Board of Governors and present your findings. Schools have factors to consider in setting uniform policy besides environmental impact. Hear their concerns.
Run parent and student consultations. You'll find you are not alone in supporting a sustainable uniform.
Urge your school to set up a task force to look at how environmental and health concerns can be included in considering what uniform your school should have, or whether to have one at all.
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Remember, schools encourage student leadership.
Refuse to Buy Polyester Uniform Items
We wrote to the school and said that we cannot buy the polyester items of the uniform knowing of the damage that they cause to the environment, and attached the calculations in this website. We also said we wanted to support our son's advocacy. Our son was granted an exemption based on ethical environmental beliefs. A 2009 legal judgment finds that the belief that individuals have a duty to take actions to prevent climate change is the same as a religious belief.
Write to your school and politely explain that you are unable to buy or wear polyester because of the damage that it does to the environment and the risks to your health. Attach your presentation and a link to this website.
Write to your MP
Government law requires schools to consider cost when setting uniform policy. Write to your MPs to urge them to issue guidance for schools to consider environmental and health impact as well. Attach your analysis, and please copy us at noplasticuniforms@gmail.com.
Fashion Revolution is urging us to write to our MPs to urge them to take action on micro-plastic pollution.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is asking us to write to our MPs calling on the government to strengthen regulation to reduce PFAS in drinking water.
