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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Hand holding an envelop

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3 people holding a sheet of recycled plastic

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man watching a training on a computer

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Man wearing a gasmask

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darning repair on a sock

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CE certified plate

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Colourful waterfilters

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The original Phonebloks model

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plastic recycled flowerpot

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Sheetpress machine

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