Clothing from Westerners who throw away their clothing often winds up in India. This video documentary visits the Kutch District in India, which is a major destination of used clothing. The clothing there is torn apart and turned into thread to create new garments. The community in the Kutch District is fascinated by their ideas about the Westerners who they imagine only wear their clothes a few times before throwing them away.
This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India's industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of clothes that come from people and places distinctly strange.