Episode 71
[FOCUS] Compostable Jeans
Episode Summary: This episode is an excerpt from a past episode with Inma and Olabanji discussing … compostable jeans
Compostable Jeans or Non-Compostable Jeans, do you know if the jeans you are wearing are compostable?
Imma and Olabanji came together to discuss the problems of the fashion industry and how a compostable product has become a non-compostable product, but things are changing as the industry starts to respond to calls for change.
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Olabanji is from Lagos, Nigeria, He’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.
Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.
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Transcript
Did you get the email?
Speaker:I did.
Speaker:I did.
Speaker:And I think it's a very interesting one.
Speaker:I think it's a lot of progress, right?
Speaker:When the sweet thing I like to say sweet, because it's interesting now,
Speaker:um, is that the issues about climate change are spread into every sector.
Speaker:And so we can see it in fashion, even though it doesn't come to mind.
Speaker:First, that fashion is something that we should think about when
Speaker:it comes to climate change.
Speaker:We immediately.
Speaker:Start looking at the guys with the oil rigs and the guys that, you
Speaker:know, have, you know, all those other kinds of stuff that are physically,
Speaker:you know, hurting the ecosystem.
Speaker:And so, yeah, yes, directly hurting and fashion is like,
Speaker:not directly, but it does.
Speaker:I think the numbers are really, really.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Let's say interesting.
Speaker:um, hit me.
Speaker:It is like two and a half billion carbons per year.
Speaker:The industry, the whole industry.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Uh, release a lot of carbon.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Um, fashion industry.
Speaker:So it, it is a big, I think it's a, the 4%, 4% of all emissions come
Speaker:from fashion industry from fashion.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:That's interesting.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If I get the numbers, right.
Speaker:And then the daily difference, send the email.
Speaker:We were, we refer to, uh, compostable genes.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which, uh, the first moment when I received the email, I was a little bit,
Speaker:uh, skeptic, because to make compostable genes you had, you just need to use.
Speaker:Cotton . Yeah.
Speaker:It's like they have been done forever until they started
Speaker:to use plastic in the fabric.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which then because of the plastic.
Speaker:Uh, it takes a whole lot longer.
Speaker:It take, it takes yeah, like 2000 years.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Something really, really out of, yeah.
Speaker:It, it just takes forever.
Speaker:That's that's interesting.
Speaker:That was what I saw.
Speaker:I saw.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:If you just use cotton.
Speaker:That's compostable.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What is the cash there?
Speaker:Why these people are selling this as a new thing?
Speaker:So I went to their website.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:The company is called C yeah.
Speaker:In Italy.
Speaker:Milan.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:C like that.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:C yeah.
Speaker:I stopped myself for a few minutes, reading their policies
Speaker:and their why they're doing it.
Speaker:And it is interesting.
Speaker:It is very, very interesting because they.
Speaker:The factory is in the middle of, uh, natural reserve.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So they must by law not spend so much water.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Don't hurt environment around the, uh, factory.
Speaker:So they started to do these things like way before this thing was.
Speaker:Problem in, in the industry.
Speaker:And so they've been doing it the right way ever since, and now it it's as
Speaker:though they've sold, uh, they're now selling to levy levy straws, which is
Speaker:interesting Hugo boss and stellar McCaney Zel lock brand and a whole lot more.
Speaker:And I think we should pay attention to this.
Speaker:I mean, you walk.
Speaker:Gene shop and you want to get a nice gene.
Speaker:You probably want to check it out if it's a compostable one, so that you're just
Speaker:contributing to saving the earth, which is why we're having this conversation.
Speaker:Like when you think of what contribution can I make to this whole, really big
Speaker:subject of climate change, sometimes it's as simple as by the compostable gene
Speaker:instead of the non-com compostable one.
Speaker:right.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And just checking, checking with the, with the shop or checking the, the label.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Do that, do that change?
Speaker:Yeah, that, that's interesting.
Speaker:I mean, so if we, if we draw a list of things that you can do to save
Speaker:the earth, um, go, go do activism.
Speaker:For example, lobby with the government, have a garden,
Speaker:plant trees and all that stuff.
Speaker:It's just nice to know that right now, the choice of clothes that
Speaker:you wear is also a way that you can contribute to saving the earth.
Speaker:And that's really interest.
Speaker:It's it's fun to know.
Speaker:I mean, when I got the email, I was like, oh, this is cool stuff.
Speaker:yes.
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