woman in front of a pile of recycled clothes
Jul 10, 2025

Our old clothes heading to Africa

At One Army we're trying to understand the fashion problem with a project called Fixing Fashion (launching on April 19th). In this picture Alicia went to a clothing charity in the Netherlands where they gather clothes that are dumped into those “clothing donation boxes”.

It's a lot! And everything is sold to Africa. Compressed into these blocks and shipped to the other side of the planet. Each block is around 55KG, moved with a forklift in Netherlands and carried by woman on the head in Ghana. More on this topic soon.

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Dave

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Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

woman wearing a repaired summer dress

Upgraded summer dress

Microplastics

Microplastics

Keychains made from recycled plastic

Keychains made with the injector

D&AD Award

D&AD Award

Scrapyard

Cable Paradise

Plastic sheet

Plastic sheets in London

Scrapyard

Hardware store

Fixed pants

New fixes from Estonia

Precious Plastic Exhibition in London

Exhibition Design of the year

Pallet with disassembled machine

Flatpack Sheetpress

The original Phonebloks model

Phoneblocks in museum

Bright magazine cover

Bright cover

man and children talking about plastic

Kenya visit

Mexico team of students setting up Precious Plastic

Machines in Mexico

Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow