Textile waste: Are we doing enough?

Questioning Fashion

In the wake of both Australian Fashion Week and the 10-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy, we ask whether we're doing enough and discuss Jo's new one-woman campaign and shopping ban, which she's titled: 'My S**t, My Problem'.
The seven-month shopping ban has since turned into one whole year, in the hope the severity of it might gain some publicity and bring more light to our consumption habits as a nation. It includes all clothes and accessories, and even includes secondhand!!!
We also look at the assumptions we have around culling and mindless 'donations' we have all been guilty of, the mass of textile waste that is dumped on the shores of Ghana and Chile, and the misuse of the word 'recycling' by the big brands and their bogus take-back schemes.
It is a can of worms, so we're including below a few articles we found helpful, including the Patagonia article we mention in the show.
Patagonia being more transparent than most: https://www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/stories/our-quest-for-circularity
Great summary of a bad situation:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/what-to-do-with-old-clothing-donation-waste/671043/
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