we may think the water supplies were the last from river. but they. when the rain. starts march 20th on t.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 come have a terrible impact on the environment it is time for us to have a rethink on to make the textile business more sustainable welcome to this special edition of africa i am sounder train of you here in kampala uganda the fall of

africa and we've me is a my colleague nia to ivor sondra and hello to our viewers out there. we're here in lagos nigeria our saunders already said today we will show ideas on how to reduce our demand for textile pro-drug unlimited environmental damage of course 1st i thought a few facts and figures here you go check. greenhouse 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. but most of the side 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 retailers change their 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 whatever 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 the total fiber import used for clothing and 87 percent is eventually incinerated all sent to man fell 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 than 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 actually warned i mean possible by more than one person like the number of people standing behind me our next report comes from south africa were 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. all the major retailers and giving a stock so this is all in the film. so. also one of the actually between with the stock and they donated to us they can claim enterprise development points on a score card of the 5 that you're stopping clothing from going to landfills and you also helping an employee a woman generate decent income. the women who work here are mainly single mothers and many used to be on employed by the clothing at a discount and sell it for

a profit. taking any labels off and making repairs. my life wasn't doing well tended to be i wasn't suffering i was making as i made to before and then i had about to see. that they teach people. to give us change in business and i always wanted to start a business by the name of 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. quite a large portion of it was being destroyed so it was being set on fire or something with something was happening church so there's no we try to investigate there's no real concrete oncet we can get and but you know there is this huge amount of stock

prices about $160000.00 items a month just to give you that 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. be what we're doing this year is we're implementing an environmental module where we're going to be talking about recycling and being a responsible citizen so that is in the development phase and helping to implement that from hopefully towards september this year. the clothing bank also includes the appliance bank it follows the same principle as the woman'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 he said most

customers. bring them into our system he brand them and put them in a shop for myself and others have to crate them see if they are a pair of or not there's an entrepreneur recycles our fair ball itself in our shop which is trade for the men come in buy the stuff and pay with and on set. the items 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 the plans bank the men in our program made $5000000.00 rounds with a profit in their businesses last year so that's saying it's a huge amount of stock that would 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. for the 7 year old thomas that he used to be unemployed working here

has given him an income and made him aware of environmental issues. teach here how to fix this thing he understands those things that we cannot really say you understand so that we can clean up the environment to actually understand so there's a lot of thing that is happening here that is positive. venue's in our lives today . 7 the clothing bank is a nurturing environment where there's always time for a bit of a dance before. next delivery arrives thank you. thank you thank you. thank you thank you. thank you and now we had 2 year old 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 impact of the clothing industry a growing number of levels and start ups in the industry want to produce a slow and the strain of all but how here are a few examples from the european union and. these clothes come with a warranty the label next focuses on sustainability is based in a green fashion hotspot makes uses certified textiles and only produces small quantities the mood in our line is designed so that our clothes or 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 for next week and know that they will mix and match with older previous items us. this way customers will have clothes to last beyond our 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 then later if they notice that's too small or too big i just throw it away. quality items from boutique labels are more expensive but barbara graham parker and her team offer repairs free of charge or for a small tip and they also are old models directly in their studio. next is one of a growing number of brands dedicated to producing long lasting clouds tom craddick learn from the u.k. sells basics t. shirts when shirts and trousers that all come with a 30 year warranty. startups me caress q 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 muti 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 here is to be sustainable and to offer customers good jeans for the longest possible time for many people dump their trousers and it's always a shame when they get ripped. a new pair of jeans costs around 120 to 150 euros here they're also secondhand ones repaired and as good as new customers seem to like the concept of the. james are kind of damaged but they have the other

personalities so the 5 of you can repair it the way it's so easy so it's really really cool i love it. nix also recently began selling secondhand items this isn't true this is our vintage section where customers can drop off their old items and receive points for the new collection of the concorde. good you can exchange donate and choose new clothes. fashion that isn't fast but the box stylish and comes with want to use. 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 carly long or short and maybe a bright color every once in a while here we have extensions of our wild of course we need but the often. made

of plastic fibers results in a lot of waste now i am woman in kenya formed a way of replacing this think that extensions with a natural environmentally friendly. for many women their hair is their corning cord if they are lucky it all just falls into place and shines but sometimes even the loveliest hair needs someone at this hairdressing salon in nairobi they use i sew for hair extensions and braids in a wide variety of colors they own of the saloon. came up with the idea to use a 5 buzz in head dressing she founded us with braids 2 years ago after kenya advantage single use plastic products until then hex tensions were usually made of plastic. on say so because baby boys may wind rain

phone doesn't sting they make him roll it doesn't cut it when being painted size of 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 thing said to care is only used once a foot and then thrown away the difference is that this text will not to braid unlike synthetic hair and it also stay stronger within said to care i braid very fast. drivers once a week took a comic almost 400 kilometers west of nairobi to cover size of lives and process the 5 pence together with my employee as a carer malaca. hair

fibers are soaked in alcohol and solution to soften them and then left to dry. then they had died. and packaged each set says for they quickly went off one u.s. dollar. is confident she could grow our business in relation to common this invention is due to the notice from the central government of kenya. they said that this 1030 we are polluting the environment. and well you know me so i stayed and thought how to remove synthetic ones when i tell you this. then they take their biodegradable natural hair on a man's back to the saloon in nairobi 10 of their regular customers are committed fans of the new braids and extensions and some talk as a buri has enjoyed the support of the think positive alternative 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 substance used to produce those bright bold patterns and priests tend to be very harmful to the environment. you're right sandra and that's indeed the case textile manufacturing process has produced a lot of waste and one major source of pollution is probably dies but a start up in france us from environmentally friendly alternatives using bacteria to generate brilliant colors in shades ranging from burgundy to be sticklers. you know. this may look like modern art but it's actually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails and made by

bacteria. here we've known for decades that microorganisms can produce pigments we're doing today appealingly is expanding their production to an industrial scale with a view to replacing the production of patrol chemical dyes worldwide on the 1. 70 blatche and beyond. say they're the 1st to study this extraordinary natural process they're the founders of the french startup based in toulouse they see these microorganisms this great allies 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 so 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. uses a huge amount of chemicals to make diamonds. but also 100 kilos

of petroleum are needed to make one keel over so in our everyday clothes there's a kilo of petroleum just for the dyes. if we 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 diversity 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 is still signs throughout the city that hark back to the glory days of the business the. dates back to the time that has special significance to police c.e.o. . on this. one day purely could offer 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. and 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 dyes to

achieve its costs they're planning to use cultural waste as a substitute for sugar. one of. the big advantages that we can take all of the leftovers like stange leaves or other parts of the crop and use them as a source of carbon so we can kill 2 birds with one stone. 520-2170 plash and his team expect to be producing several tons of dipole 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. where group of environmental activists is working to make new from they are creating fashion

from waste their colorful creative designs trusting 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 and 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 on it some jolly i 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. will. be thinking that. 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 . literally going to the oceans themselves but we're different our aim is not to go to the options but our aim is to educate people not to. look at the ocean not to spoil the orphan so therefore we're different and we're all of the 35. we are the future. we're planning for the future the highly creative approach prevention and then repurposing not which people do throw away sadly there's no shortage of real 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. there. rig themselves in such a way that they can make that they should bring up they are people everybody have art in them it's not that they don't have that everybody has but they don't bring it out so we want that people who bring out their art and me. this is a group of artists who literally take it on 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 paper 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 of come to the end of this special edition of eco africa highlighting the impact of the fashion industry on the environment that we can only say it's high time for action on your waist fabrics into bags thanks for joining us today on no take me signing up from the fashion park and lagos nigeria. see you next time and if you all of us out there know over an initiative that is helping fly into the tech so over the world then please do get in touch of online all social media channels you will find the address is in the credits i am sundering a good income player gunda good bye for now and please do join else very soon.

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