Trashion Show 2023 Presented by Credo High School

This year's theme is On-The-Go Trashion Fashion: A Trashy Look into Travel!

We are a society that is always on the go. We take travel for granted, whether it be traveling to work or school each day, attending and/or participating in sporting events and tournaments, road trips, air trips and cruises, and yes, even space travel!

Credo High School students take the stage with costumes made from recycled materials as a way to bring attention to the dangers of careless consumption. The annual show is part of the One Planet Program at Credo in which students engage in environmental learning and activism.

This year they are raising awareness of how our on-the-go lifestyle impacts the environment. Whatever the choice for travel; plane, train, private rocket, or automobile, we rely on the convenience of foods, the use of bags (suitcases, plastic bags, carry-ons) and packaging (individually wrapped goodies, plastic water bottles, to-go containers, and coffee cups) that makes it easier for us to get from point A to point B.

The esteemed judges were Mikko Bojarsky, Amy Kirsch, Leslie Lukacs and Maciej Plich.

Giovanni Castillo was wearing a design made to raise awareness about the little-known issue of space trash, AKA Space Debris.

Designers Baylee, Alexis, Payten, Oliver, Alex, Isa and more want us to be aware that due to our space travel, there are approximately 23,000 pieces of space debris larger than a softball orbiting Earth and millions larger than a paint fleck. These items are traveling nearly 10 times the speed of a bullet and pose a real risk to the safety of our space crafts and astronauts.

Is this debris a gift from our alien neighbors? NO! This is our own trash. Much of this debris is left by spent stages of rockets or satellites that are no longer active. If we don't clean up our act, space debris can eventually collide, creating more and more debris surrounding us, eventually making Earth's orbit useless.

Amethyst plans to try to display their piece in a museum or an art gallery so they can raise awareness. If that doesn't work, they will take it to Maker Maire in San Jose. Elena Buth wore an elegant and beautiful skirt created by designers Ceridwen, Ava, Maitri and Elka. Using tin foil, soda cans, worn-out leggings, candy wrappers, recycled wire and more, this team wants us to understand the INSANE amount of soda can used per day/year. 6,700 aluminum cans are used each second in the world, YES, you heard that right!! Also disturbing is the 3lbs per person of aluminum foil that is thrown away rather than recycled annually. This means it sits in a landfill for 400 years! Joan of Junk wants you to know that there are alternatives to buying products that produce a lot of waste. It is up to us to find those alternatives! After the show, Citrine plans to display the skirt. The other parts of the outfit will be deconstructed and recycled.

Last year in California, 2.8 billion cans ended up in a landfill, that's enough cans to fill 31,000 backyard swimming pools! This team wants you to know that cans can usually be recycled but if not, they can be made into various forms of art and decoration because come on, cans are bloody beautiful!

Model/Designer Rory Davis-Jones and Researcher Elijah Gottlieb hope to raise awareness about how much unnecessary paper is used and more importantly, how much is wasted! We don't have to go completely digital, but we can make improvements with the paper we use. 77 percent of paper that Americans throw out is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is only about 28 percent. We need to raise this number! After the show, Rory plan to keep this dress in her room or it will be recycled properly.

Rey Magee wearing this garment designed by Amanda, Oliver, Riley, Maisie, and Sophia. This team wants us to understand that fashion in the past was more sustainable than it is today. Clothes used to be made from higher quality materials and worn in layers, so they were washed less often. Fast forward to now and we have cheap, low-quality clothing that is made overseas. We wash clothes more often, releasing micro plastics into the water and the environment, and we are constantly buying new clothes due to the regularly changing styles of the modern world. In 2015, 730,000 tons of plastic bags, wraps and sacks were produced, and more than 87 percent were not recycled. This outfit will be submitted to the 2023 Sonoma County Fair to raise further awareness!

Stella and Ava have designed Kiel's frock to bring awareness to a sticky situation here at Credo… The amount of gum students chew! Gum may seem innocent but in addition to all the wrappers that are disposed of in inappropriate places, Every year, gum waste adds up to more than 250,000 tons of waste and 80-90% of it is not disposed of properly. Gum is not biodegradable, and it is the second most common piece of litter, behind cigarette butts. Just stick your hand under a table at a restaurant… gross! Some alternatives to chewing gum are: licorice, ginger, sunflower seeds, mint leaves and more!

Lily Kubrin wore an outfit that strives to educate you about the significant issues that we face in California due to coastal trash. The California Coastal Commission determined west coast communities spend a total of $520,000,000 per year to clean up beaches. We could be using this money to combat pressing issues in California, such as homelessness. Given the theme of the trashion show is travel, Opal wants to get the audience mindful of how quickly trash can travel. A plastic bag that way once in a drain takes 42–72 hours to find its way to the ocean. Opal plans to use this outfit to make bottle bricks, which are "plastic bottles stuffed full of inorganic landfill trash until they become compressed like bricks and are then used for building. Want more information on this? Google Bottle Bricks!

Finn Sumrall was wearing a piece that aims to make you reflect on the amount of microwave popcorn bags you are using. They are asking you not to use those stinky single use bags but to use bulk kernels in your own stovetop cooker or reusable popcorn maker. In the US, 3.5 billion pounds of popcorn is consumed each year and we could really make a difference if we just popped it old school. After the show, Finn is going to start wearing this outfit to school so they can continue to raise awareness about this issue on a regular basis.

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags per year which require 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture. These could be replaced by biodegradable polyester and polyamide. After the show they are going to use these materials for future art projects!

A single grocery store goes through approximately 6 million paper bags in a year… bring your own bags! The 4 billion Starbucks cups that are used each year require 1.6 million trees and are lined in plastic… bring your own cup! A typical household throws away 13,000 pieces of cardboard in a single year… reuse or recycle that! Stratus simply asks you to properly dispose of your trash, it's not rocket science. They plan to reuse the cardboard box used for the suitcase and the packaging material used for the vest. The paper bag pants will be properly recycled, along with the plastic bag scarf and headphones.

The Paper Package Princess was made to bring awareness to all the cardboard boxes that are used in shipping when ordering items online. She fights for recycling the boxes that are shipped to your house containing the items that you ordered. Her outfit is made from cardboard from packages, leftover scraps of linen and Styrofoam, and hot glue. Once she is done modeling, she will break down the outfit by trying to remove the strips of hot glue from the cardboard and recycle it. The linen could be later used for future projects. Did you know that "In the United States, an average household throws away more than 9000 pieces of cardboard every year?" That's a lot! The Paper Package Princess is here to say please recycle the boxes. By doing that you are helping the environment. How will it help the environment you ask, well when recycling you can reduce the amount of landfill space, oil and water being used, and trees being cut down.

The outfit was made from bubble wrap, cardboard, and the power of Amazon Prime! After discovering that 240,000 miles of bubble wrap and 850 million tons of cardboard is wasted each year, Kevin and his group are joining the war on pollution! They suggest that cardboard could be replaced with corn starch packaging and bubble wrap can be replaced by kraft paper, honeycomb kraft paper and molded pulp. They assure you that after the show, this outfit will be properly disposed of.

Bryn Weigel-Murphy is wearing this gorgeous dress designed by Ella, Ty, Jazlyn, Scarlett and Kaira. In the words of this team, "We’re hoping to bring awareness to the mass production perpetuated by Target and other chains like it. These places encourage people to buy products they don't need without reason. People have been increasingly saying ‘I went into Target with a 3-item list and returned with five bags and $200 less in my bank account.’ Target is a production paradise, but behind the warm beaches, is a capitalistic monster of sweatshops." They want us to know that Americans throw away 100 billion bags annually - that's the equivalent of dumping nearly 12 million barrels of crude oil. After the show Yuba is headed straight to Target to walk around spreading awareness!

Ben has created the ensemble using advertisement mail received from colleges. He wants us to know what a huge amount of paper is wasted but also how ANNOYING it is! If he had to guess, he would say that on average there is about 10 pounds of this paper waste per person. As an alternative he suggests they use this thing called EMAIL or no more colleges forever would be ok too. Ben promises that after the show his outfit will be given to an evil goat for consumption.

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