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

Containers on a truck with a forklift

Containers arrived in Portugal

Youtube channel

1 Million!

Prototype of a washing system

Washing system prototype

people in a rock

Looking for a land in Portugal

Shredder

Funny Hopper

Girls running Precious Plastic machines

Machines in Taiwan

portrait of a man

First helper

Colourful beams

Working on beams

Extrusion machine

Extrusion machine photoshoot

4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

D&AD Award

D&AD Award

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Crate storage

Crate Storage

Hand making a taco

Plant-based delight ☘️ 🤤⁣

Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype

Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

Three people in front of a van

Wild office

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

Hand holding an envelop

We have shipped the first One Army rewards!