Hi, I'm Jess Collins and I'm from North Queensland in Australia, and I've made a dress out of Calypso mango seeds.

Jess is 18 and grew up on a mango farm. She is frustrated that so much edible fruit goes to waste.

Over 5,000 kilos of mangoes each year that we just have to dump because they're not up to the supermarket standards.

A school design project gave Jess the idea to turn wasted mangoes into fashion.

I cut all the flesh off and then I took it over to Dad's pressure cleaner, and then I would get the rest of it so no bugs or insects would try and eat the fruit because there was nothing left on it. And then we dried them out, cut them in half and then I sewed them on.

So, I used approximately around 1,400 of them – so there was just a couple! I took over the kitchen and pretty much the whole living room as well with just mango seeds and material. It was just everywhere.

I did it for between three and four months. I was actually called ‘crazy’, but I think they were very surprised that I did end up getting it done. I had a vision in my head and I guess I just grabbed that and ran with it. But once it was all together and finished and I saw it out in the mango paddock, I was very happy with my work.

Jess wore the dress to her high school graduation dinner.

I would love to tell the consumer and also the supermarkets like, there is perfectly fine fruit and we're just throwing it out because it doesn't meet, you know, the standards of the market. And that it's edible, it's still completely edible and that it can be bought and eaten and enjoyed by everyone.