Manufacturing, the average T-shirt wastes 700 gallons of water \u2014 that\u2019s no joke. Thirteen million tons of textiles are tossed in the trash per year. And only about 15 percent of that is recycled for reuse, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Some of that ends up in thrift shops. And some of it ends up with Vanessa Andrew, founder of the eco-conscious reuse clothing label Madam Chino<\/a>.<\/p>\n