alice tesi, who works next door, takes the last third. her family business has been turning used clothes into yarn and fabric for four generations. hi! how's it going? great! did you get good material? yeah, it's all pretty good. great. then the magic begins. in the end the discarded scraps will become new yarn and wool. it's a complex process, that starts here. our goal is to restore the yarn to its original color. we separate the colors and then our machine turns the rags into a kind of fiber pulp. that way we restore the original color without chemical dyes. chemical dyes are only one of the problems in today's textile industry. worldwide, 20 percent of water pollution comes from dying and finishing fabrics. that's another reason why recycling used clothing is so important. the material then goes to our washing plant, where it's shredded and turned back into raw material. her company processes up to 25 tons of fabric per day. the final product are these fluffy fibers. the material has been dried and now has the moisture content of the

alice tesi, who works next door, takes the last third. her family business has been turning used clothes into yarn and fabric for four generations. hi! how's it going? great! did you get good material? yeah, it's all pretty good. great. then the magic begins. in the end the discarded scraps will become new yarn and wool. it's a complex process, that starts here. our goal is to restore the yarn to its original color. we separate the colors and then our machine turns the rags into a kind of fiber pulp. that way we restore the original color without chemical dyes. chemical dyes are only one of the problems in today's textile industry. worldwide, 20 percent of water pollution comes from dying and finishing fabrics. that's another reason why recycling used clothing is so important. the material then goes to our washing plant, where it's shredded and turned back into raw material. her company processes up to 25 tons of fabric per day. the final product are these fluffy fibers. the material has been dried and now has the moisture content of the