132Mtonnes

of textiles are made worldwide every year

A pile of discarded clothes
A child on a landfill full of textiles A mountain of clothes outside a fabric shop A cage full of discarded clothes

180,000tonnes

of clothing end up in the bin in Czechia

Clothes dumped next to bins

There is simply far too much textile waste.

Consumer culture doesn’t help. It’s worth asking whether we really need a new collection every month.

Refo studio was founded to give textiles that would otherwise end up in a landfill or an incinerator a second chance, and to turn them into something meaningful.