Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 4:41:54 GMT -5
It makes sense to start with these types of classic materials that look never go out of style. Gap , thousand fell and mycoworks are three companies working on new ways to redesign the clothes we no longer wear and make what we wear more durable, especially when it comes to jeans and footwear. The Spain Mobile Number List three companies met last week to share some of their ideas via a zoom conference on the potential of circular principles for the fashion industry, hosted by the ellen macarthur foundation (emf). Gap is one of the main partners of cem's make fashion circular initiative, which seeks to radically redesign the fashion industry.
The redesign of jeans is one of the projects being carried out under this initiative, which seeks to develop and share new guidelines to address waste and pollution associated with the production of jeans. Rebecca golden, gap's director of denim research and development, said her company uses more than 110 million yards of fabric each year and is looking to increase the amount of post-consumer recycled cotton it uses in its production lines. For our 2019 holiday production, we committed to using at least 5% recycled cotton from discarded jeans, this percentage figure, which is equivalent to over 91,000 pounds of recycled cotton by weight, is very much the "Starting point" for gap.
This 5% was cost neutral and allowed us to maintain our quality standards… but we are working on developing products that have a higher percentage of recycled cotton in them. The challenge of maintaining fiber quality and performance as more post-consumer cotton waste is added to denim designs is ongoing, but golden says new technologies and treatments continue to emerge and with it, greater options for obtaining recycled materials . "We have many, many better options today than we did 10 or 15 years ago ," he said, adding that conversations with suppliers " have really changed " in the last five years. The industry has made amazing strides in terms of creating more opportunities or options for designers to choose from. In addition to recycled fibers, many fashion brands are exploring the potential of using regenerative alternatives. Earlier this year, san francisco-based startup mycoworks raised us$17 million to help scale production of its reishi textile , which it claims to be the first non-plastic, non-animal material.