Ep 240 “We’re producing 23 billion pairs of shoes every year and throwing out 22 billion!” – Chandni Batra on What the Sneaker Giants Don’t Tell You
R|ElanTM Circular Design Challenge in partnership with the United Nations in India brings you a circular fashion mini-series with the chart-topping podcast, The Wardrobe Crisis, starting with Chandni Batra of A Blunt Story.
THE WARDROBE CRISIS is a sustainable fashion platform that stands for a fairer, greener, cleaner fashion future that respects people and planet and recognises the power of dialogue, listening and learning. The chart-topping podcast launched in July 2017 is now in its 11th series. Each week, host Clare Press interviews designers, change-makers, academics, creatives and fashion insiders about fashion, ethics, social justice and environmental sustainability.
In this episode, Chandni Batra of A Blunt Story is on a mission to detoxify your footwear and challenge the industry to stop trashing the planet with R|Elan™ Circular Design Challenge at Lakme Fashion Week! This is a gob-smacking conversation full of revelations about how huge numbers of shoes are made today, using oil-based plastics, potentially-toxic foams and petrochemical ingredients for all sorts of uses you’ve most likely never even heard of.
“Right from the get-go, it was very clear to me that I didn’t want to make footwear that ended up in landfills or on a beach somewhere. It was really about figuring out the how and the why. And if you go down to the root cause of anything, like for climate change- I do believe the biggest reason is the fact that we are drilling out oil.”
This episode plays now on your favourite podcast app. Read more here: https://thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/ep-240chandni-batra-what-the-sneaker-giants-dont-tell-you
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