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Every year, tons of used clothing discarded in wealthy countries end up in Panipat, India, a town that has become one of the world's largest textile recycling hubs. This short film follows that supply chain in reverse, watching workers sort mountains of donated and discarded garments shipped in from the UK and elsewhere, shredding and respinning them into 'shoddy' yarn that gets woven into blankets sold back to the poor. Women working the sorting floors talk about the clothes passing through their hands, noting brand names and conditions that reveal how little wear some garments got before being thrown out. The film never leaves the factory floor and surrounding streets, letting the physical scale of the waste, bales of fabric stacked to the ceiling, speak for itself. Without narration doing the arguing, the juxtaposition does it instead: clothes cheap enough to discard in one country become raw material and clothing again for people with far less. It runs a tight, focused account of one link in the global secondhand-clothing trade.

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Runtime compared with the other 3,326 Society films
Runtime5 m
Compared with SocietyShorter than 95%
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