Table 1: Total clothing consumed in the United Kingdom for 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016
Year | Clothing consumed (in tonnes) |
2010 | 1,030,000 |
2012 | 950,000 |
2014 | 1,080,000 |
2016 | 1,130,000 |
Source: Data adapted from Waste and Resources Action Programme, Valuing Our Clothes: The Cost of UK Fashion (Banbury: WRAP, 2017), table 2, http://www.wrap.org.uk/sustainable-textiles/valuing-our-clothes.
Table 2: Comparing survey methods
Variable | Online | By mail | Telephone | Face to face |
Cost | cheapest | cheap | moderate | costly |
Speed | fast | moderate | fast | slow |
Response rate | low/moderate | low/moderate | moderate | high |
Open-ended questions | poor | poor | moderate | best |
Possibility of interviewer bias | none | none | moderate | high |
Source: Data adapted from Rahul Chakrabarti, "Principles of m-Health Survey Design," Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine 1, no. 3 (2012): 3, http://articles.journalmtm.com.