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

More moments

parts of a chicken toy

Sorry chicken

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Dumpsterdiving

Dumpsterdiving

Man surrounded by plastic bottles

One year without using plastic bottles

green plastic sheet

Working on sheets

Mexico team of students setting up Precious Plastic

Machines in Mexico

Phoneblocks community map

Phoneblocks Community

woman wearing a repaired summer dress

Upgraded summer dress

Scrapyard

Cable Paradise

4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

Bright magazine cover

Bright cover

Extruded lamp

Kees is making stuff with plastic

three man posing

Nigerian connections

Hand holding an envelop

We have shipped the first One Army rewards!

Lunch

Lunch

Plastic recycled plastic knife handle.

Plastic Knife

Colourful waterfilters

Waterfilters by Taller Esfèrica in Spain

Conference

Ara – DevCon

man and children talking about plastic

Kenya visit