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.