Refashion Lab: Discard Studies in Cape Town

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This chapter shares findings from Refashion Lab’s three interrelated discard studies in Cape Town, aimed at reimagining fashion and textile waste as a regenerative resource and catalyst for social, environmental, and economic justice. Framed by literature on the linear, waste-generating nature of the current fashion system. The paper argues for more circular, locally grounded approaches to textile waste. The three studies included: (1) a material analysis of 450 kg of fashion and textile waste redirected from landfills; (2) a desktop analysis of fabric composition in online fashion retail; and (3) a micro-sorting project conducted at a social justice hub in central Cape Town. Using a practice-led, qualitative methodology, the studies examined local capacities, limitations, costs, skills gaps, and opportunities for redirecting both pre- and post-consumer waste from landfills and environmental pollution.

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