TEXTILE MOUNTAIN

The Hidden Burden of our Fashion Waste

Documentary film

There is no such thing as ‘away’. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere
— Annie Leonard

Europeans throw away 2 million tonnes of textiles each year. Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned.

Many of us donate our unwanted clothes to charity shops & clothing collection banks - but do we really know what happens to them then?

Globally, 70% of our donated clothing is baled and sold to textile merchants who ship them overseas for resale in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Textile Mountain exposes the social and environmental cost of the second hand clothing trade, tracing the path of our unwanted garments from recycling bins in Europe to landfills and waterways in the Global South.

Shot in Kenya, Ireland and Belgium, this film calls on us to re-imagine the way the way we design, wear and reuse our clothes - so that our fashion waste no longer becomes another country’s burden.

Watch the film (English version)

Launching Friday 29th May 2020!

Choose your language below

with subtitles in

Spanish (ES)https://youtu.be/NSmlaUrWDdo
German (DE)https://youtu.be/zrG3IKUIXjE
French (FR)https://youtu.be/eT46b_CbxZg
Dutch (NL)https://youtu.be/eQGyWpiE0Ok
Italian (IT)https://youtu.be/bLKe6pVp0-k
Portuguese (PT)https://youtu.be/Zk6QoA8iWW0
Slovenian (SL)https://youtu.be/j7lO6vWX6H4
Romanian (RO)https://youtu.be/hsm-MZCrevY
Czech (CZ)https://youtu.be/6bQdoKn3Na8
Polish (PL)https://youtu.be/N1aapJKjJik