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SQA Higher Fashion and Textile Technology Textile Industry and Society overview quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. At which stage of the textile life cycle do synthetic fabrics shed plastic microfibres?

  2. Why is fast fashion a particular environmental problem?

  3. Which option lists the waste hierarchy in order of preference?

  4. What is the difference between reuse and recycling?

  5. Which of these is an ethical or social issue rather than an environmental one?

  6. What does fair trade guarantee producers?

  7. Why is withdrawing all production from low-income countries not the simple ethical answer?

  8. Which is a smart textile?

  9. Which is a technical textile use?

  10. How has technology such as CAD and computerised cutting changed manufacture?

  11. On a care label, what does the square symbol refer to?

  12. Which piece of label information is a legal requirement?

  13. Why does following the care label matter for sustainability?

  14. What does a cross through a care symbol mean?