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Clothing Recycling / Take-back Programs

Clothing Recycling / Take-back Programs. “ Personnes ” / “No Man’s Land” by Christian Boltanski. How do you get rid of your unwanted clothing?. What other options are available?. What is Textile / Clothing Recycling?. Reuse - the original product function

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Clothing Recycling / Take-back Programs

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  1. Clothing Recycling / Take-back Programs “Personnes” / “No Man’s Land” by Christian Boltanski

  2. How do you get rid of your unwanted clothing?

  3. What other options are available?

  4. What is Textile / Clothing Recycling? • Reuse- the original product function • Recycling - use of the clothing material properties (e.g. shredded for rags or sound proofing). • Over 13 million tons of textile waste was generated in 2010. • 2 million tons (15 percent) of that wastewas recovered, recycled, and reused.

  5. upcycling - higher value or more technically demanding applications

  6. downcycling- less demanding, lower value applications

  7. ** The full exhibition used 30 tons (60,000 items) of clothing

  8. Rag Collector , 1915Seattle, Washington

  9. Rag Gatherer

  10. Women in the rag room at Crane and Co. (paper mill), 1870s

  11. RagwasherWashington, D.C., 1915

  12. Wartime Clothing Rationing

  13. Clothing Coupons / Mend and Make-Do Campaign

  14. “More information alone would not necessarily lead to behavioural change and new industry initiativesand government intervention are required.”

  15. Uniqlo's All-Product Recycling Initiative

  16. Clothing and textile waste = art materials

  17. Bed-Stuy Community Quilt Project

  18. Boltanski on "No Man's Land", June 2010

  19. Guerra de la Paz

  20. Nick Cave

  21. Sources Christian Boltanski http://tihanavalent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/003_Canada-copie-1024x825.jpg Goodwill, 23rd Street, NYC http://manpurse.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/goodwill23rd.jpg Environmental Protection Agency website http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/textiles.htm “Public Understanding of Sustainable Clothing” http://www.wrap.org.uk/downloads/Public_understanding_of_sustainable_clothing.57a6f666.10843.pdf

  22. “Fast Fashion” image http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9kPmaZL_iwA/Slzu4asNFwI/AAAAAAAABVM/6_tAn9HZiq8/S660/DSC_0022.jpg Mend and Make Do Campaigns http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=12304 UniqloebookThe Power of Clothing http://www.uniqlo.com/en/csr/ Boltanski explains “No Man’s Land” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_MaNiYYR8&feature=related Guerra de la Paz http://www.guerradelapaz.com/index2.html

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