What are the implications of fashion trends for the environment and human rights?

While billions of pairs of shoes are manufactured, and then thrown away the same year, creating an environmental problem, millions of children survive without shoes.

People in vulnerable situations around the world struggle with the footwear issue. Even though it's a basic necessity, footwear depends on income.

Reselling used shoes to immigrants and low-income areas makes a big business, yet, that´s not a real support. Some of them won´t even be able to buy the thrown-away and resold shoes, many of them are children, who are directly affected.

For a kid to participate in class without shoes it´s hardly possible.

For a person to present themselves in an urban area or an institution without shoes is questionable.

Without an income, shoes won´t be easy to obtain, even if they are semi-cheap and already used. From this point of view, recycling is extra important, and upcycling is imperative.

Would it be possible to make an international intervention chain of upcycling dedicated to specific vulnerable areas and include them all, to make sure the basic needs are fulfilled?

Correlating a creative group action by giving extra life to the objects, on the one hand, plus supporting someone´s development and the chance to live on the other would be great.

All in all, at this point a good plan for maintaining a clean environment and sustaining human rights can be done starting with recycling.

Recycle and Support!