This Is What Happens When You Composting A Pair Of Stretchy Jeans
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#AQSFAI project consist 8 installations, focus on sustainability and technology, by using radical material to bring about communication, encouraging or provoking the viewer to re-imagine new usage of our technologies and fashion consumption.
Spark a conversation on sustainable fashion with fashion industry decision maker. Creating change at the root of the fashion industry.
Leslie currently serves on the boards of COFRA Foundation (Switzerland), GoodWeave International (US), CottonConnect (UK), and the Organic Cotton Accelerator (NL) as well as the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs’ Executive Committee.
Fast fashion is a major contributor to the world's clothing waste problem. Many of us give our old clothes to charity or drop them in a store take-back bin, but you might be surprised to learn most of it is sold and can end up in the landfill.
According to a recent report, the textile industry emits more greenhouse gas emissions than international shipping and aviation combined. And the amount of waste the industry generates, as well as how much water and resources it uses, is increasing.
The number of fashion items produced around the world has doubled over the last two decades to more than 100 billion every year. More than 70% of that eventually end up in landfill.
We are consuming fashion at a rate never before seen on our planet. 100 billion garments are manufactured every year and the fashion industry continually tempts us to buy more with new ranges in the shops.
Pure Couture - At a time when sustaining our planet is at a crucial point, this documentary aims to show how we can keep our wardrobes sustainable and eco friendly. From understanding how every washing machine cycle can damage our oceans to recycling your old and textiles and reusing and repurposing your old clothes...
The works consist of 8 installations. Focus on sustainability and technology, by using radical material to bring about communication, encouraging or provoking the viewer to re-imagine new usage of our technologies and fashion consumption. #AQSFAI
Creating Red Carpet from textile waste in partnership with George Brown College and The Salvation Army Thrift Stores.
Most people believe, that old clothes donations collected by various organisations are immediately sent to countries in need. What they don't know is, the majority of the donated clothing is sold per kilogramme.
The unethically sourced ingredient that's in almost all makeup products. She travels to the mica mines in India to uncover the truth about child labor rings behind this mineral.
Maxine Bédat is the co-founder and CEO of Zady, a fashion brand and lifestyle destination creating a transparent and sustainable future for the $1.5 trillion apparel industry.
An investigative report on H&M from shady labor to text shelter for profit.
"Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century."
microplastics explain in less than a minute from USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Every human on Earth is ingesting nearly 2,000 particles of plastic a week. These tiny pieces enter our unwitting bodies from tap water, food, and even the air, according to an academic study sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature,
Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia. Some is burned as fuel by tofu makers, producing deadly chemicals and contaminating food.
Compostable plastics break down just as slowly as regular plastics in a landfill. Experts told us that buried underground, all materials - plastics and others - don’t have the right conditions to biodegrade
How can we develop environmentally friendly products, and how do we clean up the plastics we've already discarded? We travel to a materials lab in Minnesota and a recycling plant in California to find the answers
Marketplace journalists go undercover overseas and pose as recycling brokers to expose the lucrative plastic recycling business break the law to buy Canadian plastic and show how some of it is dumped and burned in illegal landfills.
The practice of recycling helps to lessen our guilt. As we drag our bins out for collection each week, we feel like we’re helping the environment. But the reality is that we’re all being conned.
12 000 water bottles are being thrown out every 4 minutes in Ontario. - Marketplace asked a lab to test five of the top-selling brands of bottled water in Canada, and microplastics were found in all of them.
Västerås, Sweden, sixty tonnes of waste are burnt every hour, converting it into energy for electricity and hot water. S
"Thousands of tons of plastic scrap collected for recycling from British households have been transported and dumped on sites across the world."
"Food waste is the single-largest source of waste in municipal landfills. According to the EPA, 35 billion pounds of food were thrown away in 2011."
Industrial agriculture is increasingly dominating the world market. It’s forcing small farmers to quit and taking over vast swathes of land. This documentary shows how destructive the lucrative agribusiness is.
Luxury: Behind the mirror of high-end fashion | DW Documentary (fashion documentary)
This investigative documentary looks behind the shiny facade of luxury fashion. Shot with a hidden camera, it shows the brutal conditions in Chinese fur farms, and how migrants are exploited in Italian tanneries.
A clothing grader in Brampton, Ont.—which buys unsold, used clothing and sells it to buyers across the globe—provides a glimpse into one of the world’s largest second-hand clothing economy hubs
With the help of marketeers, brain scientists and exclusive access to the world of the superbrands Alex sets out to find out why we buy them, trust them, even idolise them. Programme created by the BBC
‘Unravel’ follows the West's second-hand clothes on a journey across India, from the sea to sleepy, industrial Panipat, - one of the only places in the world that recycles textiles at scale.
"The Citarum River in Indonesia is the world’s most polluted river. One of the main polluters is the fashion industry: 500 textile factories throw their wastewater directly into the river."