Luxury, not landfill — the waste-free future of fashion | Joon Silverstein

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Fashion is a huge part of the world's waste problem, but it doesn't have to be. Coachtopia founder Joon Silverstein shows how her company creates new designs from the waste products of another, a circular process that cuts the need for new raw materials — and rethinks what qualifies as "luxury." (Made in partnership with Coachtopia)

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0:00.0	TED Audio Collective.
0:09.3	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Elise Hume.
0:16.6	Fashion.
0:17.4	So many of us love it, the fast-changing styles and trends, all the different ways to
0:22.3	express ourselves. It's also a multi-billion dollar industry that is inherently wasteful.
0:28.5	June Silverstein wanted to find a way to address the sustainability problem that's baked into
0:32.9	fashion. So in her 2024 talk, she shares one way they're doing it at a brand she heads called
0:39.4	CoachTopia.
0:41.1	It's after the break.
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1:19.6	Stripe.com. And now our TED Talk of the Day. In nature, there is no waste.
1:28.3	What's left behind by one organism becomes fuel for another.
1:34.3	It was human beings that invented the idea of waste,
1:38.3	of using things once, then throwing them out.
1:43.3	In many ways, waste has driven human progress.
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