1. Clothing Recycling / Take-back Programs “Personnes” / “No Man’s Land” by Christian Boltanski

2. How do you get rid of your unwanted clothing?

4. What other options are available?

6. What is Textile / Clothing Recycling? Reuse - the original product function Recycling - use of the clothing material properties (e.g. shredded for rags or sound proofing). Over 13 million tons of textile waste was generated in 2010. 2 million tons (15 percent) of that waste was recovered, recycled, and reused.

7. upcycling - higher value or more technically demanding applications

8. downcycling - less demanding, lower value applications

9. ** The full exhibition used 30 tons (60,000 items) of clothing

10. Rag Collector, 1915 Seattle, Washington

11. Rag Gatherer

12. Women in the rag room at Crane and Co. (paper mill), 1870s

13. Ragwasher Washington, D.C., 1915

14. Wartime Clothing Rationing

15. Clothing Coupons / Mend and Make-Do Campaign

17. “More information alone would not necessarily lead to behavioural change and new industry initiatives and government intervention are required.”

18. Uniqlo's All-Product Recycling Initiative

19. Clothing and textile waste = art materials

20. Bed-Stuy Community Quilt Project

21. Boltanski on "No Man's Land", June 2010

22. Guerra de la Paz

23. Nick Cave

24. Sources Christian Boltanski http://tihanavalent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/003_Canada- copie-1024x825.jpg Goodwill, 23 rd Street, NYC http://manpurse.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/goodwill23rd.jpg Environmental Protection Agency website http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/textiles.htm “Public Understanding of Sustainable Clothing” http://www.wrap.org.uk/downloads/Public_understanding_of_sustainab le_clothing.57a6f666.10843.pdf

25. “Fast Fashion” image http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9kPmaZL_iwA/Slzu4asNFwI/AAAAAAAABVM/6_ tAn9HZiq8/S660/DSC_0022.jpg Mend and Make Do Campaigns http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=12304 Uniqlo ebook The Power of Clothing http://www.uniqlo.com/en/csr/ Boltanski explains “No Man’s Land” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_MaNiYYR8&feature=related Guerra de la Paz http://www.guerradelapaz.com/index2.html