Responsible approach to the utilisation of consumer products

Consider three items of clothing in your household. One must be synthetic materials and the other two not. Answer 1.1-1.5

1.1 Name the fibres which are used to make each item.(3)

1.2 Explain what natural resources are used to manufacture the fifibres of each of these three clothing items.(6)

1.3 For each of the three clothing materials, name and describe the environmental impact of the manufacture of each material.(6)

1.4 For each of the three materials, state if it is bio-bio - degradable or not.(3)

1.5 Name four ways to reuse and/or recycle clothing materials. (4)