The True Cost Page #5

And now come these dispensers easy to use.

Four suits for the price of a modest dinner,

I feel good to throw them away when finished.

Just look landfills

and you can see in landfills

that the amount of clothing and textiles that are thrown away,

It has been increasing steadily in the last ten years,

like a dirty shade of the fast fashion industry.

As we move more and more

degradation species,

to destroy the last pristine wilderness we have left,

We seem bent on producing more and more disposable things.

It makes no sense.

Fashion should never and can never be considered

as a disposable product.

After a big change in any sector,

it takes time to feel and smell

dirt coming out of something that is polluting.

So I think there is now a change

because you can not deny

industry Fast Fashion

It has a massive impact on developing countries.

The average American takes 37 kilos

you textile waste each year.

Adding up to more than 11 million tons of textile waste

the EE. UU. only.

Most of these wastes are not biodegradable.

Meaning it stays in landfills 200 years or more,

air while emitting harmful gases.

The large amount of cheap clothes,

although people feel, perhaps somehow,

compensating to donate to charities.

The journey of a shirt donated to charities

It is difficult to accept in itself.

PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Pepe is a disease in Haiti.

Not only in Haiti, I think in any

third world country you visit.

It is a problem, it's a huge problem.

Pepe is a lot of clothes,

mostly from the United States,

People will buy a box of clothes ...

They do not even know what they are buying.

It's clothes that people donate to charities,

and these can not sell in their thrift store or whatever,

the packed and shipped to these third countries

and most end here.

It turns out that only 10 percent

We donate clothes

gets sold in thrift stores.

And as we let our clothes faster and faster,

now increasingly discarded in developing countries,

as Haiti.

As the second-hand clothes

into Haiti has increased,

the local textile industry has disappeared.

What once was a sector proudest making garments,

Haiti now produces mainly cheap shirts

to be exported to the United States.

Because earlier when you were working

used to see people coming to learn to sew.

The person could come to learn, and asked me to teach them to sew.

Then he taught them.

And they learned to sew,

You knew they would find a job with that ability.

However, today, the person can learn to sew

but you can not find work or make a living doing that.

I tell people to stop buying things,

that's not right, costs about $ 10,

vas a ir a un baile,

are you going out today. Just you go to a store

and you buy a dress for $ 10.

Because it costs only $ 10, and I can throw it away.

And tomorrow you will do the same,

and again.

While growing awareness of the impact of fashion in the world,

there are key industry leaders who begin to question

the impacts of a model based on production inconsiderate

and endless consumption.

In Patagonia, we hate the word "consumers".

We have to find a better word, we prefer "customers"

and we prefer clients who recognize

the impact of their consumption.

They recognize that, as consumers, are part of the problem.

We hope to encourage our customers to join

to us for questioning consumption.

Because without a reduction in consumption,

we believe that we will not find a collective solution

to the problems we face collectively, year after year,

They are leading to continued deterioration in the health of our planet.

The fashion industry has to think.

You have to stand and watch has been running

in a conventional manner, and to question, challenge him.

For me it is, as a designer,

the most exciting thing I do now.

More exciting to say: "I like this color this season"

or "This is the silhouette, or the hemline."

For me, a much greater challenge and excitement

is actually looking at my industry and say, "You know what?

I will try to do it in a way

it is not as harmful to the planet. "

The companies, through advertising, have made society believe

that happiness is based on things,

that true happiness can only be achieved

with annual, seasonal, weekly gain, daily

in the amount of things that you take your life.

We encourage our customers

to rethink those assumptions,

to understand where they come from.

And to understand it, to know it all together

we can change how.

The customer has to know who is responsible.

Without them, we have no jobs.

And that's really important.

So you do not have to accept it.

If you do not like, you do not have to accept it.

Rajshahi, Bangladesh

I love embroidery, Shantu.

The embroidery is very beautiful.

Do you think we should not put the embroidery on both sides?

I think we should put the embroidery here too.

I think it looks a bit simple if only forward.

So let's put it on the sides as well.

It will not add much cost.

It is not as dense, right?

How about?

Swallows is a fashion company fair trade

but it is also a development partnership.

So it is helping more than 3,000 people in this town.

I come here every four months.

We call them "journeys of production."

And we work with manufacturers,

trying to figure out what the barriers are

to make a great product and make it to market.

And we encourage fair trade capabilities.

So what are the obstacles facing

to provide more social benefits

or improve environmental protection in these areas.

For me, it's partnering.

It's about finding creative solutions,

next to them, with the team here,

and really listen to what their problems

and find together the way they actually work.

I want to invite the best employee of Swallows,

I want to invite a woman representative of Swallows,

to come to London in autumn or next spring.

And I'd like to think

Who would be the best representative.

But I want you to know who your customers are,

and I want you to really understand the market

and come back and tell all your friends.

Or, if you do single thread, simple stitch,

then maybe you need to do denser?

- Good. - More focused?

If it continues for a while,

we will climb the showroom now, PV15.

Can you come and show us the next thing to do?

Yes.

People Tree hoped would not be necessary,

and I hoped we had a trading system to take care

the rights of people and the environment.

But the more I'm involved in the development,

and collaboration with partners,

more dirt and filth I discovered

about business practices

undermine everything we believe in,

and all I know that most people believe and value.

I do not know, People Tree really grew in an organic way.

It grew from a large group of people

who believe passionately that there is a different way of ...

To work, to live, to eat,

to interact with people in a humane way.

I not necessarily think that would be a thousand shops

selling today People Tree,

and I see that there is much more we need to do.

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