# Fashion Waste

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Chloe Asaam on Fashion' Waste Crisis

Chloe Asaam is a designer, researcher, community organiser and Program/Operations Manager for The OR Foundation. The OR Foundation is an incredible charity and campaign who are raising awareness about the fashion waste crisis, specifically in Ghana’s capital Accra, where 15 million used garments po…

Christina Dean - Fighting Fashion Waste

‘Single-use' was named the Word of the Year for 2018 by the Collins Dictionary. Now that we know the oceans are choking with plastics, disposable has become a dirty word. We also know, there is no away. Nothing that uses synthetic materials is ‘disposable' – it has to go somewhere. Out of site, out…

Sustainabae Speaks! Her 'Perfect' Solution To The Hideous Side of Fashion

Third-generation sustainability superstar Alex Shadrow is our guest. She's an entrepreneur who says it's in her DNA to solve the fashion waste crisis! Better known by her moniker "Sustainabae" — a name she certainly lives up to — Alex tells us the story of her eco-warrior family, how she became a m…

S5 Ep37 ALICIA MINNAARD: co-founder of Fixing Fashion - on making repairing, upgrading and caring for your clothes the new fashion, and research into the secondhand fashion industry in the Netherlands and Accra, Ghana.

S5 Ep37 ALICIA MINNAARD: co-founder of Fixing Fashion - on making repairing, upgrading and caring for your clothes the new fashion, and research into the secondhand fashion industry in the Netherlands and Accra, Ghana. JOIN OUR PATREON COMMUNITY: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod Listen and s…

116: Children’s Secondhand Clothing + Circular Fashion Economy | Jen Zuklie, The Swoondle Society

The secondhand clothing economy is growing, and we’re speaking today about a new solution for those more frequent demands: children’s clothing trading market model. Jen Zuklie, founder of The Swoondle Society, brings us through her entrepreneurship journey, the issues with the children’s clothing …

EP. 25 Transforming Textile Waste with Zero Waste Design Online

What if instead of managing fashion waste, we designed it out instead? Today we’re chatting with two people working to help small-scale sewers and bigger brands alike do exactly that, by focusing on zero waste systems that incorporate the whole supply chain. Holly McQuillan is a researcher at the …

Alina Bassi About Tackling Fashion Waste with Kleiderly

In this episode of “D Sustainability Issue” Podcast, Dessie welcomes Alina Bassi - a Chemical Engineer turned entrepreneur with a big passion for sustainability. With seven years experience designing and building factories that turn waste into energy and biofuels, she decided to start her own ventu…

Switching Careers & Diving into Sustainable Fashion - Danielle Salinas & Shriya Bisht Misra, co-founders of Maison de Papillon & Project Gaia NYC

Have you ever wanted to take the leap and dive into a new career? If so, listen up! Today, we're chatting with Danielle and Shriya, co-founders of women's apparel line, Maison de Papillon, and Project Gaia NYC, a collaborative, multi-brand concept store showcasing elevated, purpose-driven brands. …

#156 – Dean Jones: Glamming up fashion subscriptions

“What our customers wear has a big impact on their sense of self.” I'm joined by Dean Jones, the CEO of hugely successful fashion rental company, Glamcorner. I first met Dean many years ago on a pitch episode of the podcast, and it's great to hear how the business has grown so much since that time.…

Fashion Waste - Africa is Not a Dumping Ground

Every second of every day one rubbish truck of fashion goes to landfill. 150 million tonnes of second hand clothing arrives in Ghana's market every week. 40% of those clothes are unsellable and are dumped. We explore where our clothes really end up, the catastrophic damage they are causing and what…