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Further Reading

‘How second hand clothes are creating a dilemma for Kenya’  (Guardian, 2015)

 ‘A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion’s Future’ (Ellen MacArthur Foundation Report, 2017) 

‘Dear White Mans Clothes’  (article by Liz Ricketts for Fashion Revolution, 2020)

‘How the US and Rwanda have fallen out over second-hand clothes’ (BBC article, 2018)

‘The Hidden Trade in our Second Hand Clothes Given to Charity’ (Guardian article by Andrew Brooks, 2015

‘Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion & Second Hand Clothes’ (Book by Andrew Brooks, 2015)

‘The Fashion Industry’s Problem with Waste’ 

Sources from the film

‘150 billion items of clothing are produced annually’  Sustainable Apparel Materials https://matteroftrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SustainableApparelMaterials.pdf

‘In Europe, we throw away 2 million tonnes of textiles each year.’  Fashion Waste Index by Labfresh https://labfresh.eu/pages/fashion-waste-index?lang=en&locale=en

‘70% of our discarded clothes end up in Africa.’Oxfam, as quoted in The Guardian  ‘How second hand clothes are creating a dilemma for Kenya’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/second-hand-clothing-donations-kenya

‘Kenya imports over 140,000 tonnes of second hand clothes each year’
USAID 2017: Overview of The Used Clothing Market in East Africa: Analysis of Determinants & Implications https://agoa.info/downloads/15244.html

‘An estimated 20 million kg of textiles are landfilled each year in Kenya alone’. (Africa Collect Textiles)

‘Our clothing consumption has more than doubled in the last 15 years, yet each garment is now kept half as long’. McKinsey 2016 https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/style-thats-sustainable-a-new-fast-fashion-formula

‘Textiles make up to 12% of all landfill waste’. https://www.makegood.world/fashions-problem-with-waste