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Don’t waste this opportunity

Every second of every day, the equivalent of a full dump truck’s worth of textiles is either sent to a landfill or burned. This is the estimate of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and this process destroys some $500 billion of...

September 16, 2020

Fashion

What does the SA Plastics Pact mean for fashion retail?

When the South African Plastics Pact launched last month most of the buzz was about reducing, recycling and reusing plastic packaging. Conversation was thin regarding the synthetic fibre content of our clothes, the largest source of micro-plastics in the ocean. ...

February 17, 2020

Book extract: Ten small things we can do to make a difference

Opinion

Book extract: Ten small things we can do to make a difference

No man is an island. Everything we do, even the smallest gesture, can make a difference. This is not just an expression, it is a scientific fact: sociological research has shown that when a person or a group does the...

December 10, 2019

Fashion

What’s the Stitch? How to put fashion waste to good use

At Greenpop’s Reforest Fest last year, the crew wore T-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles. You’re thinking “school design project”. Or, that it is a T-shirt made from clear plastic scales hot-glued together. Nope. These T-shirts look, feel and behave like...

February 10, 2019

Opinion

Q&A: Photographer Mário Macilau on his work and the collapse of the Mozambican trash heap

Mário has focussed his work on environmental issues and the living and working conditions of the most vulnerable people for most of his life. We chatted to him about his most recent work.

February 26, 2018

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Don’t waste this opportunity

What does the SA Plastics Pact mean for fashion retail?

Book extract: Ten small things we can do to make a difference

What’s the Stitch? How to put fashion waste to good use

Q&A: Photographer Mário Macilau on his work and the collapse of the Mozambican trash heap

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