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Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy

Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy

FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING GRAIN MEDIA, DIRECTED BY EMMY-NOMINATED WRITER AND FILMMAKER NIC STACEY.

This is the story big business don’t want you to know.

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  • “We see corporations throw out perfectly good unsold products.”

    Anna Sacks

    The Trashwalker

  • “Just stop, there’s just too much clothing in the world.”

    Chloe Assam

    Designer

  • “Every year we’re consuming more, producing more.”

    Dr. Mara Einstein

    Former Marketing 
Executive

  • “Every industry needs to take responsibility for the end of life of their goods.”

    Eric Liedtke

    Former Brand 
President, Adidas

  • “We can’t recycle our way out of all this stuff that they want us to buy.”

    Jan Dell

    Chemical Engineer

  • “These things are not just litter, these things are hazardous waste.”

    Jim Puckett

    Waste Investigator

  • “Whoever dies with the most stuff does not win.”

    Kyle Wiens

    CEO, iFixit

  • “It’s an intentional, complex, highly-refined science to get you to buy stuff.”

    Maren Costa

    Former UX Designer, Amazon

  • “You design a product, it gets used and then it turns into waste.”

    Nirav Patel

    CEO Framework

  • “As long as we define success as producing more stuff, we are in trouble.”

    Paul Polman

    CEO Unilever 
2009-2019

  • “We produce 100 billion pieces of garment a year as an industry.”

    Roger Lee

    Clothing Manufacturer

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