Miriam Keegan

But the likes of the Atacama Desert in Chile or even Acre in Ghana, they have their beaches.

Well, Atacama is a desert, but the Acre Beach is actually a 40 acre beach covered in clothes.

because that's where the dead white man's clothes go.

Because people who are donating clothes that are just not resellable in charity shops, they go to the Global South and it's their problem then to sort it out.

And then these people who

buy the bales from these contractors of clothes to resell them, they realize that they're either like beyond repair or beyond there's too many stains and they just have to dump them.

They don't have anything.

They don't have the infrastructure to actually recycle them.

So it goes down to as well, just like looking at how do we actually really think about the full life cycle of our clothes going forward?

Do we recycle them?

Do we have the infrastructure to actually

do that in Ireland first of all but even within Europe and that's a big topic now in the EU.

Yeah I know.

And we're all guilty of it.

Every one of us.

And I think we have to just give ourselves a bit of grace.

We're in a system that is completely rigged against us, you know, and as consumers, we're not given the tools to really navigate that space because all we think of is we're not good enough.

So we therefore we need to keep buying more and look better in the next picture on Instagram.

And the reality is, is that we just need to like slow down and just be like,

you know, really curate our own style and and yeah, just take it at an easier pace and give yourself some grace to just slow down and just.