How a top-down approach sustains impact for waste workers  

In a conversation with venture builders and waste workers, Namrata Iyer, Programs and Communications at Enviu India, explores if our Reweave program’s ideologies are really converting into impact, including ensuring respect and professional growth for the waste workers.  Education builds wealth, and puts healthcare, respect, and opportunities within reach. But accessing them demands money and fair …

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“The entire textile waste value chain needs to be recreated” – A conversation with venture builder Tanushri

Tanushri is venture builder at Enviu in India and manages our partnership with GIZ and Concordia Textiles. She can be considered a heavy weight in the Indian textile industry, having been working in it for over 8 years now, from starting a venture of her own to working at Intellecap, she has done it all. …

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Chapter 5: What are the problems in the bigger system?

During all our expert interviews together with our partner CAIF, we learned that the system as a whole needs to change. We are living in a disposable consumer culture that simply won’t last any longer – All players from consumers, businesses and governments will have to collaborate to change our linear system to a circular …

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Chapter 4: Recycling, upcycling or downcycling: What can we do with post-consumer textiles?

The journey of post-consumer waste is a bit of a black box.  Where does it all end up? The sad matter is that less than 1% of clothing gets recycled back into new clothing. The majority ends up in the automotive industry as cleaning wipes or fillers, some goes to the cement industry and much …

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Chapter 1: What does post-consumer textile waste in India look like?

To kick things off we wanted to better understand what textile waste in India looked like. What is the quality? What volumes are we talking about? We spoke to various Indian waste collectors and recyclers to get a better picture of the current situation. Here are our key learnings: Clothes are handed down: Donations and …

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30 lessons learned about post-consumer textile waste in India 

India is one of the largest producers, employers and consumers of fashion. But perhaps more surprisingly, India is also the second largest importer of post-consumer waste (yes: they import old clothing for recycling) this combined with a  growing consumer market creating textile waste creates a“double burden” in the country. Despite this there is no formal …

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