Trad Collective, Leeds who specialise in sustainable clothing

Trad Collective, Leeds who specialise in sustainable clothing from upcycling and mending clothes to recycling fabrics from discarded tents.

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00:00 We are Trial Collective. I'm James.

00:02 And I'm Jo.

00:03 And we specialise in sustainable fashion.

00:06 We're based in Henley, Leeds but we moved to the city centre at the end of November.

00:10 And we try to make it as easy as possible for our customers to shop sustainably.

00:14 There's different ways we do that.

00:16 We sell pre-loved clothing, we do mendings and alterations.

00:20 We also do upcycling, like what Jo's wearing now.

00:25 So we've been running for about two years and our main focus is upcycling.

00:30 As we believe that to be the most sustainable way of creating clothes.

00:33 One of our biggest current projects is upcycling tent fabrics.

00:38 When we got these tent fabrics from Leeds Festival, here's an example of one thing we do with it.

00:43 This is a laptop case taken from an abandoned tent.

00:47 The scale of tents which are left at Leeds Festival is mind-boggling.

00:51 So we wanted to stop as much of that going from landfill as possible.

00:55 Which means turning them into things which have a much longer lifespan than just one weekend.

01:00 [Leeds Festival, Leeds, Canada]

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