December 2013, National Public Radio’s Planet Money decides to track the story behind their New Years tee-shirt. They track the remarkable story of the making of the t-shirt from the cotton being picked from the farms in the Mississippi delta to the yarn factory in Indonesia to the making of the mens t-shirt in Bangladesh and the mens t-shirt in Columbia before making it to the shelf in the United States.
Here is the remarkable story about the t-shirt you wear and how it was touched by countless people along the way
The head of the spinning operation in the yarn factory says “When I see people just picking up a T-shirt and putting it back on the shelf in a store.” “I say, ‘Hey, man. We worked very hard to make the yarn which has made that T-shirt. Give it some respect.’ ” His workers created the 6 miles of yarn in a single t-shirt.
He is right…Give it some respect…
Part 1- Cotton picking
Part 2- Spinning the Yarn
Part 3- The people who made these t-shirts
Part 4-Transporting t-shirts back home
Part 5-
Will we feel guilty next time when we discard a t-shirt: a labor of love….
Audio versions:
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/248151300/248151271
More on the Cotton Story:
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/248243399/248243407
Indonesia: The Yarn making
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/248320172/248320136
Bangladesh: Impacting lives
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/247360855/248361470
Bangladesh: the men’s t-shirt
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/248718294/248718269
Columbia:the women t-shirt
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/247360787/248810540
Container transport:
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/249074805/249074811
The Giant book which destroys industries
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/247361423/249199174
The Afterlife of your discarded t-shirt
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/247362140/249796008
Issues with work, trade, and clothes
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/249339951/249333987
To read more about this, go to…
http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-project
