This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing

From Aeon: “When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of clothes that come from people and places distinctly strange. With little exposure to Western culture other than the Discovery Channel, the garment recyclers rely on their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs to create an an intriguing perspective on the West.”

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1 Response to This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing

  1. Donald N Clark (1409) says:

    I remember Seattle Art Museum exhibit–in 2002 I think it was–that followed an American T-shirt through the discard process to someplace in Africa where it was worn, then discarded again, recycled, turned into cloth, remanufactutef, and then exported back to the United States.

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