The approximate global textile waste in 2019 was about 13 million tones of which 95% could be recused or recycled. This waste is not being repurposed appropriately causing significant environmental damage. Here are five ideas of what to do with your unwanted garments.
After more than 50 years of armed conflict in Colombia, the more recently implemented peace process is slow and, in some cases, unperceived. Indigenous communities in the north are one of the most affected by the conflict and although their intervention to repair their land, human and the environmental loss has been considered to be important by the government, their understanding of the interwoven links between craft creative processes and its relation with ecological healing has not been taken into account.
In the world of sustainability, MATERIALS is a big word. It makes the news very often in the form of microplastic pollution in the oceans and plastic rubbish on the beach. Materials are very important indeed in the field of design, taking into account that everything we’d like to create would have to be made of materials.
Mamajagua was a three-year plastic recycling initiative led by Colombian artist and designer Norma Albarez in Taganga, north of Colombia. After living many years abroad, Norma returned to her native country and settle in Taganga where she began a project to clean the local beaches from plastic waste.
‘It takes approximately 20,000 liters of water to grow 1 kilogram of cotton, which is enough to make a single pair of jeans and a t-shirt.’ Until around 2pm today 50% of all fabrics produced in the world were made of cotton and you know it, cotton is a very thirsty crop. It’s a well-known…
