Edition of africa i am sounder to no avail here in campolo uganda the pile of africa weve me is a my clinic near to ivor sondra and hello to you our viewers out there. Were here in Lagos Nigeria saunders already said today we will show ideas on how to reduce our demand for textiles brought out unlimited environmental damage to course 1st lets have a few facts and figures here check. I mean house gas emissions from textile production amount to more than 1200000000 tons a year thats more than from all International Flights and maritime shipping combined. The clothing industry also uses lots of chemicals 3000 different ones can be used in the production of t. Shirts. A loss of pesticide and other chemical residues end up in waterways textile production accounts for 20 percent of industrial waste Water Pollution worldwide. Fast fashion means clothes are manufactured ever faster and more cheaply retailers change their collections with great rapidity clothing production has more than doubled since 2000 more than 100000000000. 00 garments are produced each year. And people tend to keep their clothes wherever shorter periods of time its estimated that more than half of fast fashion produce is disposed of in under a year. Only a quarter of discarded clothes worldwide are recycled. The rest are simply thrown away the total fiber input used for clothing 87 percent is eventually incinerated all sent to man fell thats the equivalent of one truck for every 2nd only one percent of the material is turned into new garments one reason is that the young blended. New ways of processing old clothes are being developed one issue is the better separation of material types fibers can be repurposed as insulation or turned into carpets. Theres a trend away from fast fashion more and more people swap or give away items of clothing and buy new clothes that are sustainably produced and likely to last a long time. There is definitely a way to reduce the amount of waste and the need for production and that by showing that the close to produce are actually warned i mean possible by more than one person like the number of people standing behind me our next report comes from south africa where projects provide single mothers an opportunity to set up their own business selling excess stock donated by retailers thats not only a Good Business idea but also a good one for the environment. Boxes and boxes of shoes and clothes and more arriving every day. When Tracy Gilmore founded the Clothing Bank 10 years ago she had no idea how successful it will become the projects partners include major retailers. All the major retailers. Giving as they say stock so this is all in the film customer so. We also want to actually doing with the stock and they donated to us they can claim in spite of points on a score card at the 5 that youre stopping. Clothing from going to landfills and you also helping an employee a woman generate decent income. The women who work here are mainly single mothers and many used to be on employed by the clothing at a discount and sell it for profit. Taking any labels off the items and making repairs. With my life was and we wanted it to be i wasnt suffering i was making as i made to before and then i had about to c. P. A. With that they teach people. To give us change in business and i always wanted to start a business but i never knew how and how i can get files so not all the items are new the women have a good idea what sells well. When anything special comes in theres always a run on it. The project empowers the women financially allowing them to build up their own microenterprise is and is also good for the environment. On a large portion of it was being destroyed so it was being set on fire or something with something was happening to it so theres no were trying to investigate theres no real concrete on says we can get and but you know there is this huge amount of stock prices about 160000. 00 items a month just to give you the sense of scale. Not only does the Clothing Bank projects serve an environmental purpose it also gives the Women Business training and teaches them about sustainability and climate protection to meet me what were doing this here is were implementing an environmental module where were going to be talking about recycling and being a responsible citizen so that is in the Development Phase and helping to implement that from hopefully towards september this year. The Clothing Bank also includes the Appliance Bank it follows the same principle as the womens project giving unemployed men. An opportunity to establish my Crew Enterprises by recycling electrical appliances. So what we do is we collect all the plans from our Retail Partners who have most customers who bring them into our system he brand them and put them in a shop for we sell for others have to create them see if they are a pair of or not theres an entrepreneur 3 cycles our affair will get sold in our shop and they will choose straight men come in buy the stock pay with and on set. The items donated to the Appliance Bank a not necessarily surplus stock but items that are not worth the bother for repairing 4 manufacturers. Just to give you a sense of what will be cycling through their plans bank the men in our program made 5000000. 00 rounds with a profit in their businesses last year so that showing you there is a huge amount of stock that would have gone into the landfill that is now being recycled and we used. A profit of 5000000 rand thats the equivalent of 300000 euros. For the 7 year old thomas but he used to be unemployed working here has given him an income and made him aware of environmental issues. Teach here how to fix this seems to understand those things that we cannot really say coping wryness them so that we can clean up the environment this way and thats been told theres a lot of things that is happening here that is positive thats a good thing or bad news in our lives today. 7 the Clothing Bank is a nurturing environment where theres always time for a bit of a dance before the next delivery arrives. And now we have to youre up to see how people are dealing with the mountains of textile waste fast fashion all of it clearly still in style there especially with the young shoppers you are very right but Climate Change has many people in europe and africa to take a closer look at the impact of the clothing industry a growing number of levels and start ups in the Tech Industry want to produce a slow and the strain of all but how here are a few examples from the european union. These clothes come with a warranty the label next focuses on sustainability its based in berlin Green Fashion hotspot makes you certified textiles and only produces small quantities when fluid in our line is designed so that our clothes or comfortable the colors are a little bit neutral so that you can build your wardrobe from season to season meaning you can always buy new clothes for next week and know that they will mix and match with older previous items us. This way customers will have clothes to last beyond the season a very different approach to fast fashion which is based on mass production. I think its a shame that some clothes are so cheap that customers dont even try them on anymore they just take them and say oh i dont need to try this on its just 3 euros. And then later if they notice thats too small or too big i just throw it away for. Quality items from labels are more expensive but barbara get part and her team offer repairs free of charge or for a small tip and they also are old models directly in their studio. Next is one of a growing number of brands dedicated to producing long lasting clouds tom cruise line from the u. K. Sells basics t. Shirts when shirts and trousers the. Come with a 30 year warranty. And start our sneaker rescue renews all sneakers so that your favorite sneakers can last for another season making sneaker rescue a dream come true for many sneaker fans. Meanwhile the dutch label golden joinery organizes repair games participants mend their broken clothes with golden thread giving their outfits a new very unique look. What to do when you get a hole in that favorite pair of jeans throw them away or maybe its better to have them repaired swedish brand new the jeans promises complimentary repairs for an entire jeans life span customers can bring their jeans to repair shops around the world to be patched up. The idea here is to be sustainable and to offer customers good jeans for the longest possible time for many people dump their trousers and its always a shame when they get ripped. A new pair of jeans costs around 120 to 150 euros here theyre also secondhand ones repaired and as good as new customers seem to like the concept of the. Shoulder of james are kind of damaged but there they are the other personalities so the further you can repair it the leaves so easy and so its really critical they love it. Next also recently began selling secondhand items this isnt true this is our vintage section where customers can drop off their old items and receive points for the new collection of the concorde. Good you can exchange donate and choose new clothes. Fashion that isnt fast but that blocks stylish and comes with warranties. Our next story is also about fashion but here the focus is not and clothing but own head. We women in africa enough to change away his time with would like to go from straight to college long or short and maybe a bright color every once in a while here weve all expressions of a want of course when it is but the often made of plastic fibers which results in a lot of waste now i am woman in kenya afford a way of replacing this think that if stations with a natural environmentally friendly. For many women their hair is their corning or if they are knocking it all just falls into place and shines but sometimes even the loveliest hair needs someone at this hairdressing salon in nairobi they use i sew for head extensions and braids in a wide variety of cars they are one of the saloon bully came up with the idea to use size of 5 pounds in head dressing she founded as a braids 2 years ago after kenya advantage single use Plastic Products until then hex tensions were usually made of plastic i prefer. On say so because they did post a wind rain phone doesnt sting they make him grow it doesnt cut it when being painted size so 5 by extensions are not just eco friendly they also proved to be cheaper over time the hairdressers here say demand is growing. Braiding with science so here is very good because even when my clients and do their hair they still use them but the thing said to care is only used once safe and then thrown away the difference is that this text well not to braid and like synthetic hair and it also states not only within city cat i braid very fast some took us a boy drives once a week to come again almost for an. Kilometers west of nairobi to cover size a leaves and process the fivepence together with employee ezekiel malaca. Hair fibers are soaked in alcohol in solution to soften them and then left to dry then they have died and packaged each set for they quickly went off one us dollar. Is confident she could grow our business in relation to come in this invention is due to the notice from the Central Government of kenya. They said that this 1030 we are polluting the environment i removed and right on me so i stayed and thought how to remove synthetic ones when i tell you this. Then they take their biodegradable natural hair on a mans back to the saloon in nairobi 10 of their regular customers are committed fans of the new braids and extensions and some talk has enjoyed the support of the think positive alternative exists Mentorship Program run by the just like money center she dreamed of selling eco friendly fashion products around the world one day but for now she is concentrating on the domestic market in kenya. So it seems we want things to be not sure but to come in all sorts of color to unfortunately the substance used to produce those bright buttons and prints tend to be very harmful to the environment. Youre right sandra and thats indeed the case textile manufacturing process has produced a lot of waste and one major source of pollution is probably dies but a startup in france is found environmentally friendly alternatives using bacteria to generate brilliant colors in shades ranging from burgundy to be sticklers. You know. This may look like modern art but its virtually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails are made by bacteria. And weve known for decades that microorganisms can produce pigments what were doing today p. Leaders expanding their production to an industrial scale with a view to replacing the production of patrol chemical dyes worldwide on the 1. 70 blatche and. Say theyre the 1st to study this extraordinary natural process theyre the founders of the french startup based in toulouse they see these microorganisms thats great allies that could be used to color all our clothes without any chemicals for years they worked to identify the microorganisms best able to produce color. In 2015 they finally developed a low carbon method to obtain pigment for dying textiles its a method thats been used for centuries in the Food Industry you know we allow these microorganisms to ferment to bit mike fermenting beer. But instead of consuming sugar to make alcohol the microorganisms are consuming sugar to make dies. Because of that. It takes a week and warm temperatures for the blue pigment to appear the substance is then tried to obtain a biodegradable powder. Power suitable for dyeing different types of fabric depending on the formulas we apply we can produce colors ranging from burgundy to light blue. This biotechnology could change the face of the fashion industry. The textile industry is one of the most polluting sector. In the world. Uses a huge amount of chemicals to make diamonds. But also 100 kilos of petroleum are needed to make one kilo of god so in our everyday clothes theres a kilo of petroleum just for the dyes. If we take just one piece of clothing like a t. Shirt or a pair of trousers for instance 10 to 40 percent of its Environmental Impact died so i do. Believe as such its focus on india and china the biggest textile produces the company dreams of transforming the whole production chain making it more sustainable could believe help to lose return to its heyday when the city was the capital of blue. During the in a sense the french city blossomed thanks to the hostile blue business the soft die was derived from one local plant the flourishing industry slowly declined from the early 19th century. Nowadays to loose has abandoned the industrial Scale Production of the natural pigment but there are still signs throughout the city that hark back to the glory days of the business the parlay a safe dates back to the time that has special significance to please c. E. O. On this. Hope one day people a card offer the city of columbus a beautiful building like this because it was built by people who were selling pastel bloom during the renaissance period. Purely we are effectively going back to the story of to lose because they were creating dies out of plants until the 19th century then petrochemicals arrived now we want to develop again a production made out of renewable materials about older material and over. So far the startup has produced several kilos of dye powder with. The help of the bacteria but they will need to improve the process if theyre to compete with petro chemical dice to achieve costs theyre planning to use agricultural waste as a substitute for sugar. Its a big advantage is that we can take all of the leftovers like stangs leaves or other parts of the crop and use them as a source of carbon so we can kill 2 birds with one stone. 5202170 plash and his team expect to be producing several tons of dipole a year we might then be able to find close died without pigment but they would need more time more money and more Production Capacity to become a serious alternative to the petrochemicals industry. And now before we go we want to bring you back to africa to the island. Where group of environmental activists is working to make new from they are creating fashion from waste their colorful Creative Designs tracking a lot of attention and raising awareness for the idea of reuse for the sake of the environment so lets go take a look at what theyre doing. This is design a fashion on a more down to earth level clothes on show here are just as weird and wonderful as their counterparts in order to but come with far less fanciful price tags. And some jolly and thats no surprise there designed to make a statement and encourage greater environmental awareness and there are no limits to their make his imagination. The plastic good enough if you live in the east. So. We will be you know. These are the minds behind the creations a group of young people frustrated at seeing their country and above all the sea choking on garbage they write poems discuss plans and Exchange Ideas and prototypes. The Office Campaign usually going to sell but were different our aim is not to clean the options but our aim is to educate people not to. Look not at all the orphan the deaf why we are different and we are all of the 35. We are the future. Were planning for the future the highly creative approach prevention and then repurposing not which people do throw away sadly theres no shortage of raw material on zanzibar the group also gets help from waste collectors. Working with plastic takes some getting used to but with a bit of practice it becomes just another material for the seamstresses. Their clothes are genuinely designed to be worn in the case of the newspaper suit that means lining it with vegetable fiber. Apparently its a very popular item also on account of its warmth. My message to people that they should. Make them filled in such a way that they can make the pain they should bring up there are people everybody have art in them its not that they dont have everybody have but they dont bring it out so we want the people who bring out. Art and me. This is a group of artists to literally take it on to the streets. They designed certainly turned heads and onto locals in downtown Zanzibar City and if that initial surprise then gives way to reflection about recycling then theyll have achieved their goal. I kind of like that suit made out of paper maybe ill try and make one for myself also try to get you one of these bags made from fabric santa but im afraid of come to the end of this special edition of eco africa highlighting the impact of the fashion industry on the environment that we can only say its high time for action on your waist fabrics into bags thanks for joining us today on no tag were signing up from the fossil park and Lagos Nigeria. 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