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A Growing Problem People are buying more new clothing and throwing out old clothing faster than ever. Since 2000, clothing sales have doubled. Some people are helping to solve this problem by buying less cloth- ing or buying it from second-hand stores. In France, a company has turned unwanted fabric into bricks! ach year around the world, more than 100 million tons of old clothes are thrown in the trash. Much of this fabric takes decades to decompose. And some kinds take hundreds of years to decompose! E
Where did it happen?
Here is how they do it: They collect old clothes. They gather clothes that people have thrown away, like t-shirts and jeans. 1.
A New Solution FabBRICK is a French company that turns old, unwanted clothes into new, colorful bricks. These fabric bricks can be used to make furniture, special walls, and other decorations instead of just ending up in the trash.
Why did this problem need solving?
They chop up the clothes. The company uses a special machine to shred the fabric into tiny pieces. They add a special glue. These little pieces of cloth are mixed with a special, Earth-friendly glue. They press the mixture into bricks. The soft mixture is squeezed into a brick shape and left to dry.
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FabBRICKs are available in a rainbow of colors.
How Much is 100 Million Tons? One hundred million tons of old clothes is the weight of about 18 million elephants. Lined up from trunk to tail, 18 million elephants would form a line that is long enough to wrap around the Earth at the equator nearly three times!
© Vicki Whiting December 2025
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