It is also an invitation to imagine alternatives, because:

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently” David Graeber.

• ” Consumers don’t produce ” waste” – we are only a waypoint for objects that have been designed to be wasted”  (  Lepawsky and Liboiron 2022 )
• The vast majority of waste by weight , by volume , and by toxicity is industrial solid waste 97/3
• “There is still no proven technology that works to clean u something as vast a the ocean of something as small as microplastic” Discard Studies
• We produce enough food across the world to wipe out global hunger – but one-third of it goes to waste. That’s 1.3 billion tonnes of food thrown away. More here

Designed by Victoria Frausin, made by Carol Gittins and Sewing Cafe Lancaster’s team as part of the preliminary research on Textile Dynamics: The big picture. It is impossible to address Textile Dynamics without understanding it as part of a dominant system that violates people and nature.