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There are documentaries showing the huge industry in Africa of cutting worn clothes at the seams, choosing the best parts of the resulting panels, trimming them
by nwatson 2y ago
There are documentaries showing the huge industry in Africa of cutting worn clothes at the seams, choosing the best parts of the resulting panels, trimming them down, and reformulating a new good-looking garment of a smaller size. Other than manufacturing raw textiles, I'm not sure much is cut out of the supply chain here.
- 1oooqooq 2y agohow is that a feasible industry? southern African countries produce cotton but don't have a textile industry even for their army uniforms. it's the usual colonial triangle of extraction and forced consumption. they just moved the frame. before it was enslaved to America, ag produce to the empire, goods to Africa. now it's ag produce to the empire, goods to the periphery of the empire, and garbage to Africa and south America. (vast majority of those clothes are literal garbage. donation is a very small percentage. same with selling refurbished electronics which won't even receive updates and are already out of support/vulnerable)