“I feel that we are finally talking about the problem, and that is the first step for real change. Now we need to put words into action,” says Rosario Hevia on founding Ecocitex.
It all started with baby clothes. When Rosario Hevia got pregnant with her second child, she started to notice just how many children’s garments are wasted. The gendered onesies she bought for her firstborn, a daughter, were in perfect condition, but they wouldn’t suit her new baby boy. She started to focus on textile waste in her home country of Chile. Hevia’s engineering background means she is constantly adding numbers, finding solutions, and improving systems.
in 2018 revealing that Chile produced 550 tons of textile waste every year. She felt hopeful with her yarn factory. “I [have the capacity to] process 20 tons per month, so 240 a year,” she says. But in November 2021, shocking images from the Atacama desert emerged from Chile, revealingabandoned in makeshift landfills. It was worse than Hevia thought. The photos went viral all over the world, with international outlets like Al Jazeera and the BBC covering the heaps.
The old clothes that will be recycled in the yarn factory are cut and separated by color. There are bundles of clothes of various colors, different tones of blue, green, and yellow that will later turn into a unique turquoise eco-yarn. That pile of color-selected fabric first goes through a guillotine and then through large, loud old machines supervised and controlled by Ecocitex’s operators.
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