A garment thrown out in Rotterdam becomes a school uniform in Accra, a market stall in Nairobi, a workshop rag in Karachi. What decides which one it becomes is the sorting floor in between — and that floor is the whole of our business.

G Star Recycling buys original collections from municipalities, charities and private collectors, brings them into Sharjah, and puts every kilo through the same hands and the same standard before it leaves in a container. Twenty-five years in, we ship to more than forty markets, and the grade sheet has not changed hands once.

• Original collection
• Hand sorted, 250 tables
• One written grade sheet