(10 Jul 2024)
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Wenzhou, China – 20 March 2024
1. Wide of pile of used clothes in shredding room of recycled textile factory
2. Various of pile of used clothes
3. Various of factory workers feeding used clothes into machine for shredding
4. Close of used clothes entering shredding machine
5. Various of shredded materials within machine
6. Factory worker in blow room, where the shredded fibers are sorted by color and fed into spinning machines
7. Various of machine collecting fibers for spinning machine which leads into carding room where fibers are brushed in same direction
8. Various of packages being prepared for shipping outside
9. SOUNDBITE (English), Kowen Tang, Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company:
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"China should be the best place for post-consumer waste because we have manufacturing here, we have consumers here, we have the technologies. But unfortunately we have some legislation issues that we cannot use post-consumer waste… for garments that we’re selling into the China market."
10. Factory worker wheeling barrel of fibers from carding room
11. Drawing process where fibers are taken from barrel and straightened
12. Mid of fibers on cones after drawn from barrels
13. Various of end packages leaving conveyer belt
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Shanghai, China – 19 March 2024
14. Various of workers in vintage and recycled fashion brand Times Remake workroom in Shanghai
15. Various of Times Remake founder Da Bao sorting through inventory
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Shanghai, China – 18 March 2024
16. Times Remake sales assistant stocking clothing rack with “remade” jeans
17. Various of “remade” clothes on rails
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Shanghai, China – 19 March 2024
18. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin), Da Bao, owner of Times Remake:
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"I think the most meaningful products are…a combination of the past style and current fashion aesthetic to create something unique. It’s a future development for the fashion industry."
19. Various of worker in studio remaking clothes
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Shanghai, China – 18 March 2024
20. Wide pan of Times Remake store in Shanghai
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Shanghai, China – 19 March 2024
21. Various of Reclothing Bank founder Zhang Na showing designs and their labels with sustainability information
22. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin), Zhang Na, founder of Reclothing Bank:
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"I think excessive consumerism really eats away at people’s minds. I hope what I am doing can slowly change this. We’re not against consumption, we’re against waste. I really want to bring this awareness to China."
23. Various of clothes collection box outside of Reclothing Bank flagship store in Shanghai
24. Various of items for sale in store
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Beijing, China – 7 July 2024
25. Various of shoppers and stores at a Beijing shopping street
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Shanghai, China – 19 March 2024
26. SOUNDBITE (English), Shaway Yeh, fashion sustainability consultant:
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"I think definitely remaking will help with the whole agenda but it has to be put into the whole circular economy context and so it’s not just remaking, you need to start it from recyclable fibers and then all these waste textiles will be put into use again."
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Wenzhou, China – 20 March 2024
27. Various of factory workers feeding used clothes into shredding machine
28. SOUNDBITE (English), Kowen Tang, Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company:
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Beijing, China – 7 July 2024
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