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Used or surplus clothing from Western countries often ends up in Africa. Whether that’s good remains open to question.
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There is a growing trend within the sustainability community towards upcycling, by taking waste materials and giving them purpose by turning them into something more usable. In order to prevent more waste & pollution from being created, upcycling materials is one of the best (and craftiest)
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When every problem's solution seems to feed into another problem, what do you do? Textile science offers a path forward for a $2.5 trillion industry.
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Download this Premium Photo about Pile of used clothes on a light background Second hand for recycling, and discover more than 60 Million Professional Stock Photos on Freepik
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You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that around a truckload of textile waste goes into open landfill or is incinerated every second. What little lifestyle changes make we all make to help counteract this? 1) Buy less. 2) Wear your items for longer. 3) Swap clothing. 4) Mend your clothing. 5) Upcycle clothing. 6) Buy second hand. #knotwaste #RepairReuseUpcycle #MendYourFuture #Sustainability #ethicalfashion #ecofashion #slowfashion #Slowdown #ChooseConsciously #MindfulFashion
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Projects — Femke van Gemert I Waste Textiles Artist
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Tucked behind sand dunes throughout Chile’s Atacama Desert, heaps of branded jackets and hiking shoes that never found a second life were some of the most striking images that made their way around the world about a year ago. The “world’s dumpster,” as some international outlets came to call the estimated 741 deserted acres of clothing junkyards, had quietly taken shape in the planet’s most arid desert. The hundreds of acres of amassed trash — countless articles of clothing, both torn and…
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Fast Fashion’s Graveyard A documentary film by Ian Berry - COMING SOON - Artist Ian Berry makes a documentary about the clothes waste in the Atacama Desert in Chile named Fast Fashion’s Graveyard -&
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The Acoustic Felt is a sound absorber made from 100% traceable, upcycled textile waste brought to market by award-winning design studio Form Us With Love and their venture BAUX.
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Saving the earth one reused item at a time. Together, we can make a fashion statement by making an environmental one, too.
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As we enter a new stage of life this week (empty nesting!), we're looking for ways to lean into fresh starts rather than sad endings. Among other things, taking a fresh look at living lighter on the...
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Worldwide, short product lifecycles, including cheaply made garments produced at high volumes, textile waste, and production waste byproducts occurring down the supply chain have resulted in 92 million tons of annual landfill and incinerated pollution. Beyond the physical waste produced, the exploitive working conditions in clothing manufacturing have broad social ramifications on human health and...
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Textile Recycling services help protect your Los Angeles, California company. We provide the best and most secure textile recycling.
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In a warehouse in India, mountains of clothes discarded in the west are about to be turned into new products
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