Pants on Fire

Outside/In

NHPR

Natural Sciences, Documentary, Society & Culture, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2013

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Textiles are all around us. We live in them, sleep on them, sit on them, walk on them, live in houses filled with them. It’s one of the biggest industries in the world. But it’s also one with a big problem and, at least for consumers in the United States, a largely invisible one - textile waste. Today, we’re tearing the very shirt off your back to explore the old is new approach to textiles that could eliminate millions of tons of garbage a year. Find more Outside/In Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The other day I took a short trip over to Erica Janick's house, outside-in's executive
0:06.8	producer. I was not just there to pet her dog.
0:11.1	Oh, but you're so cute. I was there to visit Erica's
0:15.0	to visit Erica's workshop.
0:16.0	Sam, this is my sewing room.
0:18.0	It's kind of a mess.
0:20.0	You've got like an IV bag for your iron?
0:22.0	I do, I do in case, you know, I need to...
0:24.8	Erica makes all of her own clothes, mostly dresses, mostly whimsical patterns and prints like typewriters,
0:31.5	bespectacled stags, little bears with parasols.
0:35.0	Like, do I need this, my knee dresses?
0:36.4	Probably not.
0:37.4	But, you know, if I need a shirt, I can just make myself one. Sometimes I feel like Mrs. Prisel from the Magic School of this.
0:47.0	Erica invited me over here to witness just one of the invisible costs of making clothes.
0:54.4	The thing that most of us who buy our clothes at stores
0:56.7	never really see.
0:58.1	Scraps.
0:59.1	Wasted Fabric.
1:00.2	I'm just going to show you
1:01.5	how much waste I have from one year.
1:03.6	One giant rubbermaid tub.
1:09.6	Two giant rubber made tubs. Oh, three giant rubber made tubs.
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