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.

A moment from
Dave

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Men in Korea

Upcycling center Korea

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

Injection machine

Machinery in Indonesia

Man wearing a gasmask

Business guy In the workspace

man and children talking about plastic

Kenya visit

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

man swimming in a lake

We've been clearing the spring

Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype

The original Phonebloks model

Phoneblocks in museum

Mattia on a boat looking out

To boat or not to boat?

Keychains made from recycled plastic

Keychains made with the injector

Group of people standing in front of a workspace

Precious Plastic team

green plastic sheet

Working on sheets

two vans and two man in a field

Basekamp is growing

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

Phonebloks ad in London street

Ad in London

Extrusion machine

Extrusion machine photoshoot

Mexico team of students setting up Precious Plastic

Machines in Mexico

Containers on a truck with a forklift

Containers arrived in Portugal