Tears welled up in fashion design student Leeanne O’Donnell’s eyes when in 2016, a friend shared a video of Rana Plaza, a garment factory in Bangladesh, collapsing and killing over 1,100 workers.
“I saw crushed limbs and so much pain. My heart just broke,” said the 20-year-old diploma student at LASALLE College of the Arts.
She then started reading up on clothing manufacturing processes. She was shocked to learn about the massive amount of waste this produced — and how factory workers’ lives are put at risk.
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