beethoven is for us. is for. beethoven 2020 the 250th anniversary year long deep trouble here. when shopping for clothes it can sometimes be hard to decide they 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 and make the textile business more sustainable walk into these special

edition of africa i am sounder to no avail here in campolo uganda a pile of africa and we've me in a my clinic near to ivor sondra and hello to our viewers out there. we're here in lagos nigeria sonders already said today we will show ideas on how to reduce our demand for textile pro-drug unlimited environmental damage to course 1st i thought a few facts and figures here check. the homes 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 cast aside 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 what ever 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 fiber import used for clothing and 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 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 are actually worn 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. approached all the major retailers and giving as they say stock so this is all in the film. so when spoken sections of the action tune with the stock and they donated to us they can claim points on a score card at the 5 that's stopping. clothing from going to landfills and you also helping unemployed women generate decent income. the women who work here are really single mothers and 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. my life wasn't doing well tended to be i wasn't suffering i was making as i made before and then i had about to see being with that they teach people. they give us cheney business and i always wanted to start a business but any more 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 to us so there's no we're trying 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 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 i mean 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 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 back 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 who bring them into our system the deep random and put them in a shop for resell for others have to grade them see if they are a parable or not entre parable 3 cycles are a parable get sold in our shop trade for the men come in buy the stock repair it and i said. that it was donated to the appliance bank a not necessarily surplus stock but items that are not worth the bother for repairing 4 manufacturers. just to give you a sense of what we're recycling through their plans bank the men in our program made $5000000.00 rounds with a profit in their businesses last year so that's showing you that 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 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 cobain you understand so that we can clean up the environment and that's been sold a lot of things that is happening here that is for the think that the very use in our lives to take. us to. 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're up to see how people are dealing with the mountains of textile waste fast fashion all of it 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 labels and start ups in the industry want to produce a slow and sustainable 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 green fashion hotspot makes you see certified textiles and only produces small quantities of 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 from next week and know that they will mix and match with older previous items so. this way customers will have clothes to last beyond the 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 it's too small or too big let's just throw it away for. quality items from labels are more expensive but barbara get part 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 craig learn from the u.k. sells basics t. shirts white shirts and trousers that. come with a 30 year warranty. startups make arrest 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 their favorite pair of jeans throw them away or maybe it's better to have them repaired swedish brand new day jeans promises complimentary repairs for an entire jeans lifespan 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. but the genes are kind of damaged but they have the how

their personalities so the further you can repair it the leaves show easy so it's ready it's 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 component of good you can also change donate and choose new clothes. fashion that isn't fast but that last stylish and comes with worn to. our next story is also about washing but here the focus is not and clothing but own head. we women in africa love to change away his titles we like to go from strength to call a long or short and maybe a bright color every once in a while hail leaves all expressions of a want of course when it is but the often 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. need. 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 obvious 10 need some work at this hairdressing saloon in nairobi they use i sew for head extensions and braids in a wide variety of colors they are one of the saloon i assume took us a bully came up with the idea to use size of 5 pounds in head dressing she founded us with braids 2 years ago after kenya had ban single use plastic products until then hex tensions were usually made of plastic i prefer. on say so because big boys may wind rain on doesn't they make him grow it

doesn't cut it when being painted size so 5 by extensions are not just eco friendly they also proved to be cheaper over time the headdresses here say demand is growing . braiding we site so here is very good because even when my clients and do their hair they still use them but it and 30 care is only used once and then thrown away the difference is that this text longer to braid and like synthetic hair and it was a state within 30 care i bred very fast. drivers once a week took a mag almost 400 kilometers west of nairobi together size a leaves and process the fibers together with employee ezekiel 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 quibble and of one us dollar some took us a boor is confident she could grow our business in relation to come in this invention is due to the notice from the central government of kenya. they said that this 1030 we 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 the saloon in nairobi 10 of their regular customers are committed fans of the new braids and extensions and sometimes a buri has enjoyed the support of the think positive alternative exists mentorship program run by the just command center she dreams of selling eco friendly fashion

products around the world one day but for now she is concentrating on the domestic market in kenya. so it seems that we want things to be not true but to come in all sorts of color to unfortunately the substance used to produce those bright bold patterns and proofs 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 be sticklers. you know. this may look like modern art but it's not actually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails are made by

bacteria. from 7 year we've known for decades that microorganisms can produce pigments because what 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 long gone. 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 dyes also in history because of what. it takes a week and warm temperatures for the blue pigment to appear the substance is then tried to obtain a biodegradable powder. power is 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. uses a huge amount of chemicals to make diamonds. but also 100 kilos

of petroleum are needed to make one kill or die so in our everyday clothes there's a kilo of petroleum just for the dyes. and it is also know that 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 died so that 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 helped 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 blue dye 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 the parlay i thought dates back to the time and has special significance to please c.e.o. . on this. we hope 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. pioli 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. so follow 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

each use costs they're planning to use a cultural waste as a substitute for sugar. it's a 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 and. by 2021. 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 petrochemicals 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 use for the sake of the environment so let's go take a look at what they're doing. this is design a fashion more down to earth level clothes and 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 live in but the east. so it's 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 campaign. going to. but we're different our aim is not to clean the oceans but our aim is to educate people not to. look not at all the orphans so that's why 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 role 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 the people that. make themselves in such 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 that people to bring out their art and make the point. this is a group of artists who literally take out onto the streets. they design certainly turn heads and on to respond 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 sandra 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 tag we're signing up from the foster park in lagos nigeria. see you next time you're on to a few of us out there know open the initiative that is helping fly into the textile overload thankless and you get in touch of online all social media channels you will find the addresses in the credits i am sounder to know the income playing gunda goodbye for now and please and do you actually know very soon.

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