Re:Tex
Name
Jeannette Loua
Education degree
Master
Study programme
Furniture Design - Products, Materials and Contexts
Institute
Architecture and Design
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
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Re:Tex sample: Re:Tex sustainable textiles, made with 50 percent recycled textile and 50 percent virgin materialThese textiles a
Re:Tex sample: Re:Tex sustainable textiles, made with 50 percent recycled textile and 50 percent virgin materialThese textiles a
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):
Decent work and economic growth (8)
Responsible consumption and production (12)
Climate action (13)
Life on land (15)
