TEXTILE MOUNTAIN - THE HIDDEN BURDEN OF OUR FASHION WASTE

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 and 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 highlights 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 20 minute documentary 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.

More: https://www.textilemountainfilm.com/
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Credits:
Filmed & edited by Fellipe Lopes
Researched and produced by Caitriona Rogerson
On site research by Lindi Campbell Clause Closing music:
‘Mazingira Yetu’ by Larry Dwayne Ft Shamir
Produced for https://makeeuropesustainableforall.org/