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¿Cuál es el verdadero valor de tu ropa usada? | Karine Boucher | TEDxCancún


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this morning when you opened your closet
to choose what you were going to put on
you asked what percentage of all the
clothes that you have do not use
how many people would like to have the clothes
who has never been exposed
some years ago my day
birthday someone knocks on my door
quarter
when I open I see my mom with a big
smile
I had a gift for me in his hand
right was the red sleeve shirt
cut with multicolored flowers that we had
seen her and I last Thursday at the
mall when we made our
late mom daughter
25 years have passed and this shirt that
I love so much in my closet
has followed me from paris to cancún ida and
back in my days of happiness of anger
and sadness
and today that shirt is still in micro
sets in very good condition
I could well have thought of buying a
new shirt to help the
textile industry remains the second
most polluting of our planet
after oil
or buy a new shirt and be
more than two thousand liters of water in
produce it is the amount of water that
a person drinks for two years and
medium is a lot of water for a single
shirt imagine how much it represents for
all the clothes they have in their
closet
and I ‘m not talking about the development of the phase
fashion or fast fashion that is not done
consume more and more textile or
salaries ages or conditions
of those who produce
this textile
I could have thought that this shirt
old does not serve anyone and have it
thrown in the trash as he tells me what
does in my air technician
conditioned when it no longer serves your
clothing
they think it ‘s an isolated case
Well, no
imagine only 15 percent of the
clothing worldwide is donated or
recycled
that means that 9 out of 10 people
closes your textile to the garbage
so that you realize in Mexico every
year 640 million tons of waste
textile end up in the garbage
that corresponds to a ton every
minute
every Mexican on average in a year
has 200 shirts in the trash
It is so much the textile that we throw in Mexico
every year that it reaches to fill two
Sometimes the Aztec stadium capacity
87 thousand people
and once arriving at the landfill
my polyester shirt would have taken
500 years to degrade like a
super plastic bag
when we think about recycling we think about
metal cardboard paper but who thinks about
recycle the textile that helps us
decrease the volume of waste that
sent to landfills or
reduce the energy consumed encourages
development of recycled products and the
responsible economy and generate new
jobs
recycles clothes but for whom
Did you know that in Mexico 4 out of 10
Mexicans live in poverty or
extreme poberty
and the urban area of cancún is not a case
isolated
the state of quintana roo has a
infinity of Mayan communities very
withdrawals from urban areas where
basic services are scarce and
social support visits are minimal are
very humble people who live of the day
a day for them to please new clothes or
used represents a huge expense in the
family budget and most
they can not buy clothes for
his family
the fact of donating a garment to them
will add the day and that of your family well
they could receive a pair of pants and give him another
use transforming it into shorts by
example or to a shirt cut his sleeve
cut and use that textile waste for
make rags to clean your house
some expert friends in feng shui me
they said that by letting go of those
things that we do not need at that moment
we create emptiness and emptiness generates
opportunities and good things about our
life another friend recommended me to read the
book the magic of the order of queer dow
and apply the method with mario ‘that
is to say take care of your things and
when they no longer donates you happy
Say goodbye to them, thanking your
function
and that’s when I really understood
beyond the plan this shirt all the
April days micro sets the relationship that
had with her the still real attachment
emotional to those clothes I just needed to be
the duel of this shirt the duel of the
emotions of the experiences that I felt
of memories that would kill themselves
per se
all at some time in our lives
we have donated something to someone that object
that plant that we liked so much but
we really thought about what would be the
person who receives it or who the second
use was going to give to that object that
we gave
I bought this shirt from my mom 25 ago
years
I put it on the day after the party
my first communion
the day my brother gets
and also unintentionally
the day he was diagnosed with cancer
my mom
my mom is no longer
but this shirt like this
When I open my closet it reminds me of her
It reminds me of all the emotions that
I can not share with her anymore
I never thought that shirt could do
somebody else happy as all
emotions that he gave me along
this years
and that’s when the idea of creating
a space for exchange and coexistence
where people with limited resources
can in a personalized way choose the
clothes that really need to use
personal
a store without prices
and so the idea of the little store comes up
free
yes
It is a store without our prices
beneficiaries are surprised when they arrive and
find a space like your store
of usual clothes
with clothes that smell clean clothes that smell
rich will divide by sections men
women kids accessories and where
can really choose what they need
for your personal use but without labels
and without prices when we explain the
concept are surprised and come back to
ask if we really are
giving away clothes
and this brightness in his eyes does not have
price
in some printed cookies we prepare with
love the clothes to restore the
self-esteem of who receives it
in a little shop without prices
We allow people to reflect what
it has inside but due to deficiencies
I could not do it before
a little girl without prisoners also helps
the accidents of life as is the
case of the lady marisela that was us
recommended by another association because
his room burned and he lost everything
with us she could choose clothes for her
and her 10-year-old son in a store without
prices we also support the initiation
social as is the case of don jaime
who came to visit us to choose a
I take out as he says to look better for
your job interview on the day
next and what do you think
he got the job
one of our beneficiaries the lady
gladys who has an ocular prosthesis and
for this disability and his age
difficult to find work
she works with us and we
helps to recycle clothes that by their
broken or damaged condition can not be
donate or reuse she transforms this
used textile to extend its cycle
of life and divert it from the trash about
More years
for all this we give another value to
textile used a more sentimental value a
more emotional value
and you donating your clothes is a way of
let go of them and make
someone else give him a second life to
that all the emotions contained in
this clothes can transcend and resonate in
other hands
what do you do daily to help the
other people who are not lucky
to live the life that you have
what do you do to contribute to a better
society
I’m not better than anyone and I do not come to
convince them to contribute to a
better a better world or take care of the environment
ambient
I only propose that we make conscience
that something that made us happy in some
moment of our life can do
happy to someone else through through
of its recycling without price
Be part of a change
so you already know in a simple way
you can support both socially and
environmentally you only need
come back to your house
open your closet and here is to transmit
all the emotions that these clothes you
they gave to you
make a difference recycle your clothes
namely
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