Re:Tex

Every week tons of donated clothes are being shipped to Africa from the West, and in Ghana, 40 percent of that clothes ends up in unregulated landfills, causing environmental pollution. Re:Tex aims to reduce the environmental footprint of textile waste in Ghana and create job opportunities, by developing implementable textile methods, that recycles textiles waste and creates a new unique material

The challenges of donated clothes from the west: We buy more clothes, than we have ever before. That has also increased the amount of clothing we donate to charity. The majority of donated clothes ends up on the African continent. They Receive 70 percent of clothes donated from the west. Kantamonto market In Ghana, is one of the biggest reseller markets in Africa. They receive around 15 million pieces of donated clothes each week. 40 percent of that clothes is in such poor quality, that it can’t be resold or re-used. That is an enormous amount of unusable textile that African countries are dealing with.

some of the proces we have been though during the project.

Re:Tex proces

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Re:Tex sample: Re:Tex sustainable textiles, made with 50 percent recycled textile and 50 percent virgin material These textiles are produced with a felting method, using textile waste. we developed this method during our Re:Tex project.