systems. using too much water and coming. under useless. we may think cold water supplies will last forever. but they. when the rains stop. starts march 20th on g.w. . when shopping for clothes it can sometimes be hard to decide there are often so many choices but the process from fabric production to a finished piece of clothing can have

a terrible impact on the environment it is time for us to have a rethink and make the textile business more sustainable welcome to this special edition of africa i am sandra train of you here in kampala uganda a pile of africa we've me is a my colleague mia to ivor sandra and hello to our viewers out there. we're here in lagos nigeria saunders already said today we will show ideas on how to reduce or demand for textile products unlimited environmental damage of course 1st let's have a few facts and figures here you go check. the house gas emissions from textile production amount to more than $1200000000.00 tons a year that's more than from all international flights a maritime shipping combined. the clothing industry also uses lots of chemicals

3000 different ones can be used in the production of t. shirts. a lot of pesticide and other chemical residues end up in waterways textile production accounts for 20 percent of industrial waste water pollution worldwide. fast fashion means clothes are manufactured ever faster and more cheaply retail is change that collections with great rapidity clothing production has more than doubled since 2000 more than $100000000000.00 garments are produced each year. and people tend to keep their clothes wherever shorter periods of time it's estimated that more than half of fast fashion produce is disposed of in under a year. only a quarter of discarded clothes worldwide are recycled. the rest are simply thrown away of the total 5 the input used for clothing 87 percent is eventually incinerated all sent to landfill that's the equivalent of one truck for every 2nd

only one percent of the material is turned into new garments one reason is that the young blended. new ways of processing old clothes are being developed one issue is that better separation of material types fibers can be repurposed insulation or turned into carpets. there's a trend away from fast fashion more and more people swap or give away items of clothing and buy new clothes that are sustainably produced and likely to last a long time. there is definitely a way to reduce the amount of waste and the need for production and that by showing that the close to produce are actually worn and if possible by more than one person like the number of people standing behind me our next report comes from south

africa where projects provide single mothers an opportunity to set up their own business selling excess stock donated by retailers that's not only a good business idea but also a good one for the environment. boxes and boxes of shoes and clothes and more arriving every day. when tracy gilmore founded the clothing bank 10 years ago she had no idea how successful it will become the project's partners include major retailers who have approached all the major retailers and giving as they say stock so this is all in the film customer service spoke with sections and i think one of the actually doing with the stock and they donated to us they can claim in spite of points on a score card at the 5 that you're stopping. clothing from going to landfills and you also helping an empowered woman generate decent income. the women who work here

are mainly single mothers but many used to be on employed by the clothing at a discount and sell it for profit. taking any labels off the items and making repairs. with my life wasn't we wanted it to be i wasn't suffering i was making as i made to before and the ahead about to see being with that they teach people. they give us chains and business and i always wanted to start a business but i mean you know how and how i can get files so. not all the items are new the women have a good idea what sells well. when anything special comes in there's always a run on it. the project empowers the women financially allowing them to build up their own microenterprise is and is also good for the environment.

on a large portion of what's being destroyed that was being set on fire or something was something was happening church so there's no we were trying to investigate there's no real concrete oncet we can gates and but you know there is this huge amount of stock prices about $160000.00 items a month just to give you the sense of scale. not only does the clothing bank projects serve an environmental purpose it also gives the women business training and teaches them about sustainability and climate protection to me what we're doing this year is we're implementing an environmental moncho we're going to be talking about recycling and being a responsible citizen so that is in the development phase and we happen to implement that from hopefully towards september this year. the clothing bank also includes the appliance bank it follows the same principle as the women's project giving unemployed men. an opportunity to establish my crew enterprises by recycling

electrical appliances. so what we do is we collect all appliances from our retail partners who have most customers bring them into our system brand them and put them in a shop for resell for others have to crate them see if they repairable or not there's an entrepreneur 3 cycles are of get sold in our shop they will choose straight men come in buy the stock and pay with an onset. diabetes donated to the appliance bank a not necessarily surplus stock but items that are not worth the bother for repairing for manufacturers. just to give you a sense of what will be cycling through their plans bank and then in our program made $5000000.00 rounds with a profit in their businesses last year so they're saying it's a huge amount of stock but what have gone into the landfill that is now being recycled and we used. a profit of 5000000 rand that's the equivalent of

300000 euros. 47 year old thomas lee he used to be unemployed working here has given him an income and made him aware of environmental issues. we teach here how to fix this thing here on earth and those things that we cannot really say go being one of them so that we can clean up the environment and there's been so there's a lot of thing that is happening here that is positive that's a good thing very much in our lives to be. 7 the clothing bank is a nurturing environment where there's always time for a bit of a dance before the next delivery arrives. and now we have to you up to see how people there are dealing with the mountains of

textile waste fast fashion all that are clearly still in style there especially with the young shoppers you are very right but climate change has many people in europe and africa to take a closer look at the influx of the clothing industry a growing number of labels and start ups in the tech industry want to produce a slow and sustainable fashion but how here are a few examples from the european union. these clothes come with a warranty the label next focus is on sustainability it's based in a green fashion hotspot makes uses certified textiles and only produces small quantities and some wood in our line is designed so that our clothes are comfortable the colors are a little bit neutral so that you can build your wardrobe from season to season meaning you can always buy new clothes from next week and know that they will mix

and match with older previous items us so. this. customers will have clothes that last beyond a season a very different approach to fast fashion which is based on mass production. i think it's a shame that some clothes are so cheap that customers don't even try them on anymore they just take them and say oh i don't need to try this on it's just 3 euros. and they later if they notice it's too small or too big they're just throw it away their quality items from boutique labels are more expensive but barbara gephardt and her team offer repairs free of charge or for a small tip and they alter old models directly in their studio. next is one of a growing number of brands dedicated to producing long lasting clouds tom cridland from the u.k. sells basics t. shirts sweatshirts and trousers that all come with a 30 year warranty. and start up sneaker rescue renews all sneakers so that your

favorite sneakers can last for another season making sneaker rescue a dream come true for many sneaker fans. meanwhile the dutch label golden joinery organizes repair games participants mend their broken clothes with golden thread giving their outfits a new very unique look. what to do when you get a hole in that favorite pair of jeans throw them away or maybe it's better to have them repaired swedish brand new the jeans promises complimentary repairs for an entire jeans life span customers can bring their jeans to repair shops around the world to be patched up. the idea is to be sustainable and to offer customers good jeans for the longest possible time many people love their trousers and it's always a shame when they get ripped. a new pair of jeans cost around $120.00 to

$150.00 euros here they're also 2nd tower. once repaired and has critters new customers seem to like the concept of the. soul james are kind of damaged but they're there because their personalities show the fact that you can repair it and it's show easy so it's ready it's very cool i love it. nick's also recently began selling 2nd hand items this isn't free this is our vintage section where customers can drop off their old items and receive points for the new collection of the components of the noise good you can exchange donate and choose new clothes. fashion that isn't fast but the box stylish and comes with warners. our next story is also about fashion but here the focus is not and clothing but on head where women in african love to change our hair styles we like to go from

straight to calling the long or short and maybe a bright color every once in a while hail waves all expressions of a wad of possibilities but the overton made of plastic fibers which results in a lot of waste now i am woman in kenya afford a way of replacing this think that extensions with a natural environmentally friendly motto. for many women their hair is their corning or if they are knocking it all just falls into place and shines but sometimes even the loveliest hair needs someone at this hairdressing salon in nairobi they use size of her head extensions and braids in a wide variety of colors they own of the. bully came up with the idea to use size of 5 pounds in head dressing she founded as a braids 2 years ago after kenya had banned single use plastic products until then

hex tensions were usually metal. plastic i prefer. on say so because maybe it was a wind rain form doesn't. make a big role in doesn't cut it when being plain to size so 5 by extensions are not just eco friendly they also proved to be cheaper over time the hairdressers here say demand is growing. braiding with size so here is very good because even when my clients and do their hair they still use them but the things said to care is only used once before and then thrown away the difference is that this takes longer to braid and like synthetic hair and it was a state within said to care i braid very fast i sometimes dries once a week to come again almost 400 kilometers west of nairobi together size a leaves and process the 5 best together with employee as

a care malaca. their fibers are soaked in alcohol in solution to soften them and then left to dry then they have died and packaged each set says for they quiver and off one us dollar. is confident she could grow our business in a variation of this invention is due to the notice from the central government of kenya. they said that this to emphatic weaves are polluting the environment i removed and right on me so i stayed and thought how to remove synthetic ones when i tell you this when they think then they take their biodegradable natural hair on a man's back to this i don't in nairobi 10 of the regular customers are committed

fans of the new braids and extensions and some talk as a bookie. has enjoyed the support of the think positive are tentative exists mentorship program run by the to sweet talk money center she dreams of selling eco friendly fashion products around the world one day but for now she's concentrating on the domestic market in kenya. so it seems we want things to be not sure but to come in all sorts of color to unfortunately the stop signs used to produce those bright bold patterns unproved tend to be very harmful to the environment. you're right sandra and that's indeed the case textile manufacturing processes produce a lot of waste and one major source of pollution is probably dies but a startup in france has found environmentally friendly alternatives using bacteria to generate brilliant colors in shades ranging from burgundy to believe that

stickler. you know. this may look like modern art but it's virtually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails are made by bacteria. we've known for decades that microorganisms can produce pigments because what we're doing today is expanding their production to an industrial scale that would have you to replacing the production of petrochemical dyes worldwide. 70 blatche and. say they're the 1st to study this extraordinary natural process they're the founders of the french startup believe based in toulouse they see these microorganisms this great lines that could be used to color all our clothes without any chemicals for years they worked to identify the microorganisms best able to

produce color. in 2015 they finally developed a low carbon method to obtain pigment for dying textiles it's a method that's been used for centuries in the food industry you know we allow these microorganisms to ferment to bit mike fermenting beer. but instead of consuming sugar to make alcohol the microorganisms are consuming sugar to make dies . because of that. it takes a week and warm temperatures for the blue pigment to appear the substance is then tried to obtain a biodegradable powder. suitable for dyeing different types of fabric depending on the formulas we apply we can produce colors ranging from burgundy to light blue. this biotechnology could change the face of the fashion industry. the textile industry

is one of the most polluting sector. in the world. it uses a huge amount of chemicals to make diamonds. but also 100 kilos of petroleum are needed to make one kilos so in our everyday clothes there's a kilo of petroleum just for the dyes. if you take just one piece of clothing like a t. shirt or a pair of trousers for instance 10 to 40 percent of its environmental impact is due to. the. believe has set its focus on india and china the biggest textile produces the company dreams of transforming the whole production chain making it more sustainable could believe help to lose return to its heyday when the city was the capital of blue. during the in a sense the french city blossomed thanks to the hostile blue business the soft die was derived from one local plant but the flourishing industry slowly declined from

the early 19th century. nowadays to loose has abandoned the industrial scale production of the natural pigment but there are still signs throughout the city that hark back to the glory days of the business that. dates back to the time and has special significance to please c.e.o. . on this. one day billy card offered the city of columbus a beautiful building like this because it was built by people who were selling pastel bloom during the renaissance period. purely we are effectively going back to the story of to lose because they were creating dies out of plants until the 19th century then petrochemicals arrived now we want to develop again a production made out of renewable materials just about all the material went over . so far the startup has produced several kilos of dye powder with the help

of the bacteria but they will need to improve the process if they're to compete with petro chemical dice to it's use costs they're planning to use i could cultural waste as a substitute for sugar. that's the big advantage is that we can take all of the leftovers like stang's leaves or other parts of the crop and use them as a source of carbon so we can kill 2 birds with one stone. by 2021. and his team expect to be producing several tons of dye powder a year we might then be able to find close died without pigment but they would need more time more money and more production capacity to become a serious alternative to the petro chemicals industry.

and now before we go we want to bring you back to africa to the island. group of environmental activists is working to make new from they are creating fashion from waste their colorful creative designs trashing a lot of attention and raising awareness for the idea of reuse for the sake of the environment so let's go take a look at what they're doing. this is design a fashion on a more down to earth level clothes on show here are just as weird and wonderful as their counterparts in order to but come with far less fanciful price tags. and some jolly and that's no surprise there designed to make a statement and encourage greater environmental awareness and there are no limits to their make his imagination. the plastic container if you live in the east.

this week you'll be you know. these are the minds behind the creations a group of young people frustrated at seeing their country and above all the sea choking on garbage they write poems discuss plans and exchange ideas and prototypes . the office campaign literally going to. but we're different our aim is to clean the oceans but our aim is to educate people not to not to pollute the ocean not to spoil the earth and the deaf why we are different and we are all of the 35. we are the future. we are planning for the king for a highly creative approach prevention and then repurposing not which people do throw away sadly there's no shortage of raw material on zanzibar the group also gets help

from waste collectors. working with plastic takes some getting used to but with a bit of practice it becomes just another material for the seamstresses. their clothes are genuinely designed to be worn in the case of the newspaper suit that means lining it with vegetable fiber. apparently it's a very popular item also on account of its warmth. my message to people that they should. make them fill in sex a way that they can make the things they should bring up they are people everybody have in them it's not that they don't have that everybody has but they don't bring it out so we want the people who bring out there are and make the point. this is

a group of artists who literally take them to the streets. they design certainly turn heads in on tours and locals in downtown zanzibar city and if that initial surprise then gives way to reflection about recycling then they'll have achieved their goal. i kind of like that suit made out of people maybe i'll try and make one for myself also try to get you one of these bags made from fabric santa but i'm afraid i've come to the end of this special edition of eco africa highlighting the impact of the fashion industry on the environment we can only say it's high time for action turn your waste fabrics into bags thanks for joining us today on their signing up from the fossey park in lagos nigeria. see you next time you aren't if you all of us all then know of an initiative that is helping quiet of the tech so overload one place and you get in touch of online all social media

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