Monthly Archives: January 2012

Did you know that around 100,000 tonnes of ‘shoddy’ (used clothes) each year end up in mills in South Asia? Where the workers are paid less than £1.50 a day to work long hours in unhygienic conditions to turn your clothes into threads and then remake them into fabric?
This was a pop up exhibition the Bargehouse a large derelict building just behind the OXO Tower in Jan 2012. It highlighted five years research by Waste of the World into where our donated clothes go; something that most of us are totally in the dark about. Continue reading →