Re:Tex

Name
Jeannette Loua
Education degree
Kandidat
Institute
Architecture and Design
Program
Furniture Design - Products, Materials and Contexts
Year
2021

Every week tons of donated clothes are being shipped to Africa from the West, and in Ghana, 40 percent of that clothes ends up in unregulated landfills, causing environmental pollution. Re:Tex aims to reduce the environmental footprint of textile waste in Ghana and create job opportunities, by developing implementable textile methods, that recycles textiles waste and creates a new unique material

The challenges of donated clothes from the west: We buy more clothes, than we have ever before. That has also increasedthe amoun

A small selection of pictures taken during the development of our sustainable textiles

Re:Tex proces
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Re:Tex sample: Re:Tex sustainable textiles, made with 50 percent recycled textile and 50 percent virgin materialThese textiles a

The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)