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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Boijmans museum

Storyhopper in Boijmans

Fixing Fashion badge in the shape of a hashtag

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Sheetpress machine

Playful Sheetpress

The original Phonebloks model

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Scrapyard

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Phonebloks models

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4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

Injection machine

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Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

CE certified plate

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Pecha Kucha conference

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Carolina making stuff in the workspace

kinds pants fixed and repaired

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D&AD Award

D&AD Award

3D drawing of the sheetpress

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Microplastics

Microplastics

Three man hugging

Precious Plastic meets Bope