Have you ever bought clothes? Then you need to watch this.
We went on the ground in Kenya to unravel the trade of used clothing. What we found is a system at breaking point, the end of the runway for fast fashion dumped on the Global South. Here's a few takeaways, but please watch the full film as there's so much we discovered: https://lnkd.in/euwFFGk5
👕 Up to 300 million items of synthetic clothing are dumped in Kenya each year, fueling the plastic pollution crisis. This is a result of the growing production of cheap, synthetic clothing made by brands in the Global North.
👚Over 1 in 3 pieces of used clothing shipped to Kenya contain plastic and immediately become waste. This is despite restrictions on plastic waste export around the world, and an obvious loophole in the Basel Convention.
🚢 The export of used clothing has become the export of waste with up to 50% of clothing bales damaged, stained or unsellable. Our investigation reported clothes covered in vomit, animal hair and ripped beyond repair.
🌊 A less visible form of plastic pollution, textile waste permeates dumpsites and areas arounc clothing markets, spilling into rivers and out to sea. It's also burnt for fuel or in open fires on dumpsite.
🚨Sorting at the source is failing, and many recycling companies are involved in the used-clothing trade, and major charities are in partnership with them. Some are even part of Textiles2030 and Fashion for Good.
📜 This cannot be solved by voluntary initiatives from the fashion industry. We need well-designed EPR with eco-design requirements as a start, and the report has a range of recommendtions for how to reform this broken system.
This investigation could not have happened without the following superstars: Ximena Purita Banegas Zallio Urska Trunk Nusa Urbancic Veena Holkar Betterman Musasia Clean Up Kenya Pierre Condamine Anne-Marie Lucas Pietro Bruni Mario Rautner Monicah Ngatia
Full investigative report here: https://lnkd.in/dMCHp7N
We went on the ground in Kenya to unravel the trade of used clothing. What we found is a system at breaking point, the end of the runway for fast fashion dumped on the Global South. Here's a few takeaways, but please watch the full film as there's so much we discovered: https://lnkd.in/euwFFGk5
👕 Up to 300 million items of synthetic clothing are dumped in Kenya each year, fueling the plastic pollution crisis. This is a result of the growing production of cheap, synthetic clothing made by brands in the Global North.
👚Over 1 in 3 pieces of used clothing shipped to Kenya contain plastic and immediately become waste. This is despite restrictions on plastic waste export around the world, and an obvious loophole in the Basel Convention.
🚢 The export of used clothing has become the export of waste with up to 50% of clothing bales damaged, stained or unsellable. Our investigation reported clothes covered in vomit, animal hair and ripped beyond repair.
🌊 A less visible form of plastic pollution, textile waste permeates dumpsites and areas arounc clothing markets, spilling into rivers and out to sea. It's also burnt for fuel or in open fires on dumpsite.
🚨Sorting at the source is failing, and many recycling companies are involved in the used-clothing trade, and major charities are in partnership with them. Some are even part of Textiles2030 and Fashion for Good.
📜 This cannot be solved by voluntary initiatives from the fashion industry. We need well-designed EPR with eco-design requirements as a start, and the report has a range of recommendtions for how to reform this broken system.
This investigation could not have happened without the following superstars: Ximena Purita Banegas Zallio Urska Trunk Nusa Urbancic Veena Holkar Betterman Musasia Clean Up Kenya Pierre Condamine Anne-Marie Lucas Pietro Bruni Mario Rautner Monicah Ngatia
Full investigative report here: https://lnkd.in/dMCHp7N
