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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Precious Plastic pilot #3 in the Maldives

woman wearing a repaired summer dress

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Containers being unloaded

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Men building machines

Mattia doing events

Lunch

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portrait of a man

First helper

Crate storage

Crate Storage

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Exotic waste

Recycled plastic hydroponic vase

Extruded hydroponic vase

Three people in front of a van

Wild office

parts of a phone

Modular phone in progress

three man posing

Nigerian connections

Extrusion machine

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Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

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Man wearing a gasmask

Business guy In the workspace

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

A pan and a strainer to dye with avocado

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Keychains made from recycled plastic

Keychains made with the injector

Phonebloks models

Found these old models when cleaning up