Upcycling Partnership
The MFI Foundation collaborates with our partner MFC Tie-Dye Inc. to sustain our upcycling partnership that aims to divert and transform textile waste sent to Ghana from the Global North through the creation of upcycled products. This keeps textile waste out of landfills, open-air dumps, and the environment and also generates living wages for artisans displaced by the fashion industry and secondhand clothing trade.
How Our Upcycling Studio Transforms Textile Waste:
Environmental Impact Of the Partnership:
The MFI Foundation and MFC Tie-Dye Inc. upcycling partnership reduces the environmental health impacts of textile waste sent to Ghana from the Global North by transforming secondhand textiles into upcycled products to divert them from entering landfills, open-air dumps, and the environment in Ghana.
Social Impact of the Partnership:
Our upcycling partnership generates living wages in the creative economy through work and apprenticeship positions in the creative economy for artisans in Ghana who have been displaced by the secondhand clothing trade. The partnership primarily employs persons who are socially marginalized due to discrimination related to disability and/or gender.
About the Problem of Global Textile Pollution:
Matilda Lartey, Founder and Executive Director of the MFI Foundation in conversation with MFC Tie-Dye Inc. (MFI Foundation’s Partner in the United States) Board Member Stacey Johnson and MFC Tie-Dye Inc. Project Coordinator Dielle Lundberg