The Borgen Project featured ACT as a leading force in Kenya’s circular textile economy, showing how discarded clothing can create new products, green jobs and income opportunities particularly for women and young people. The article was written by Abisola Oladipupo, who is based in Hatfield, UK, and focuses on Good News for The Borgen Project.

The Borgen Project featured ACT as a leading force in Kenya’s circular textile economy, showing how discarded clothing can create new products, green jobs and income opportunities particularly for women and young people. The article was written by Abisola Oladipupo, who is based in Hatfield, UK, and focuses on Good News for The Borgen Project.

ACT was featured by AllAfrica and Bird Story Agency for transforming discarded textile fibres and offcuts into blankets, mops and cleaning towels; showing how local recovery can turn waste into products, jobs and economic value.

ACT’s partnership with Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital has diverted two tonnes of used linen and staff uniforms from landfill, demonstrating how circular textile recovery can become part of everyday healthcare operations.

GrowthAfrica featured ACT’s journey from a single-room operation to a growing textile-recovery enterprise, demonstrating how structured collection, sorting, upcycling and future fibre-recycling capacity can turn waste into jobs and long-term value.

ACT was featured by Tufts University for its work connecting textile recovery with women’s empowerment, sustainable livelihoods and the preservation of local basket-weaving traditions.

On World Environment Day, ACT showcased ‘The Afterlife of Waste’, developed in partnership with Unplug Africa, Janet Chemitei and presented a textile-waste installation created with artist Eperu Magala at Alliance française Nairobi.

From Nairobi to Lagos, ACT joined leading African circular fashion innovators at Lagos Fashion Week’s Woven Threads VII: CRAFTED, presented in partnership with Sunny Dolat and Eperu Magala.

Featured in ‘The Standard’, ACT’s community collection drive with EPROK at Baraka Estate highlighted how partnerships, public awareness and investment in recycling infrastructure can help build a sustainable and commercially viable circular textile economy in Kenya.

ACT was featured in AnnKm in an article by Hillary LeBlanc exploring the impacts of the global second-hand clothing trade. The feature highlights ACT’s work in textile collection, sorting, recycling, upcycling, and building circular textile systems in Kenya while creating green jobs and reducing textile waste.

We joined World Clean Up Day with UN-Habitat, showing how Nairobi’s textile waste crisis can become an opportunity for circular design, green jobs, and truly waste wise cities.

ACT is featured in Le Monde for turning unsellable textiles into new products and livelihoods, showing how local action can redefine circularity in the face of a global waste crisis.

ACT is featured by UNSSC for driving practical, community-led circular solutions that keep textiles in use and cut waste in Kenya.

Nairobi’s textile waste crisis is growing, yet community efforts and circular fashion initiatives are proving how local action can cut waste and create new opportunities

ACT launches a new foundation to scale textile recycling and expand opportunities for communities, supported by a major grant to strengthen Kenya’s circular fashion systems.

ACT shows how shifting from linear to circular fashion can cut waste, create jobs, and turn discarded textiles into opportunity across Kenya and Nigeria.

With support from the DOEN Foundation, ACT diverts unwanted textiles from landfills by building local collection systems that turn waste into new possibilities.

Apparel Insider features ACT in a report on Nairobi’s used clothing markets and the growing impact of second-hand imports on Kenya’s textile landscape.

ACT joins the E4Impact Accelerator, gaining mentorship, seed funding, and support to scale textile recovery and upcycling across Nairobi.

Our Lagos team hosted the first ACT Academy, a kids’ workshop showing how textile recycling sparks creativity and teaches circular thinking.

ACT and Zola Afrique join forces to boost textile recovery and circular fashion in Kenya, raising awareness, hosting new collection points, and turning used textiles into renewed products through local collaboration.