by Temwa Msiska | Feb 14, 2021 | Design Futures Africa, Features
Vanessa Nsona collects waste, tinkers and toys, to prototype and make new products. Circular thinking is central to her work in Malawi. “I have always thought of waste as treasure,” she says. I spent a day with Vanessa, visiting her workshop, sourcing materials in the...
by Liz Ricketts | Feb 4, 2021 | Features
In an open letter to the fashion industry, Liz Ricketts cofounder of OR Foundation insists there can be no sustainability revolution without justice throughout the global supply chain. She has has been working with secondhand clothing retailers and upcyclers in...
by Jackie May | Sep 16, 2020 | Opinion
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 – which destroys some $500 billion of textiles per year – is the...
by Reporter | Aug 17, 2020 | Opinion
In this article by Andrew Tomita and Rob Slotow argue that it’s critical to increase recycling but ask why waste sites have to be close to where people live, especially the marginalised and socioeconomically vulnerable. There has been considerable public...
by Catherine Del Monte | Jul 8, 2020 | Opinion
Plastics have transformed the way we live. From medicine, to computers, to travel, to communications, this chemical discovery has pushed us into the modern world. However, the very thing that was produced to make life cheaper and easier is now costing us in ways...