A Positive Change

Shop smarter

Your shopping choices affect how brands react. By forcing brands to be more responsible for their production and in how it recycles, you push for a positive change. Brands understand more than ever, the need for reducing energy use when manufacturing clothes, how it emits toxic chemicals and wastes water when sourcing for key materials.

Reduce energy use

By buying secondhand clothing you aid in reducing the overall energy consumed, by keeping garments from landfills. When garments avoid the landfills and are given a second life, it reduces the need for the manufacturing of more garments, the freight transportation involved and the materials needed to source those garments. All of which require the use of non-renewable energy.

Less carbon

On average 1 lb. of clothes that is sold as secondhand clothes save 5.9 lb. of CO2.  Production of new cotton as well as other textile fibers puts a further strain on the environment.

Less water

The fashion industry requires tremendous amounts of water during the production of new garments. Often this is wasted in fabric production or even when clothes are sent to landfills. By preventing clothes from going to landfills or new items from being produced, you also aid in avoiding the use of toxic chemicals that end up in waterways during the manufacturing process or disposal. Since so many clothes are wasted every year for absolutely no reason, a positive change can be had.

“Think First. Chose Second”

All items that cannot be resold or donated are sent to a recycling facility. Our mission is clear; No waste left behind. By reducing waste we can do our part in helping the environment! 

As society becomes more familiar with the hazards associated with sending old textiles to the landfill, and as new recycling technologies develop, it can be anticipated that the textile recycling industry will continue to grow. We believe so strongly in this goal, that we have and will continue to invest immensely, in projects that aim at reducing landfill waste. This starts with stripping fabrics from damaged items and then repurposing it. This in result provides fabric for upholstery projects, sheets and repurposed clothing items.

Interested? Please contact us for more details.