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Early morning and the charity donation bins have already been ransacked over night by looters. Left in the rain and now mostly rubbish, the remains are taken away to the tip as landfill at great cost to the Charities and the environment.
Tapa is a sustainable textile made from pounding the bark of the mulberry tree. It is used to make traditional Fijian costumes
West Australia > Malaysia > West Australia. After completing a sea journey of over 6,000km, this cut rag has been weighed and re-bagged in Australia then wrapped in plastic for on-sale.
The donated clothing, now cut rag, has already created a substantial carbon footprint having completed the round sea voyage from West Australia to Malaysia and back covering more than 6,000 kms. Here it’s being double-checked for metal content and re-bagged into 5kg rag bags to export yet again...
Considering this term "Who Made My Cloths" is to show Transparency many websites simply use this term to attract customers without any relationship to the Idea of Ethical Fashion other then misuses.
These containers represent what Australia sends to Malaysia yearly for processing where 25% is on-shipped to Africa as recycled clothing, and the remainder cut into rag and distributed globally.
Recently donated clothing, bailed into 150 kg blocks and ready for loading in to a sea container for the 3,000km journey to Malaysia for sorting and cutting in to rag. The warehouse supervisor takes a moment for morning tea.
Two thirds of textile waste is discarded as landfill . It has become the fastest growing component in the household waste stream.