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repack fashion packaging canada

How To Use RePack To Make Fashion Sustainable

Reusable, returnable, and rewarded packaging service RePack is launching in North America across Canada and the United States, after 5 years of successfully circulating reusable packaging in Europe with fashion...
frugi recycled polyester clothing

Frugi Launched New Sustainable Essentials For Children

Organic clothing retailer Frugi is launching a new range of sustainable essentials for children. They are made of recycled polyester, manufactured from post-consumer plastic waste such as PET bottles. The...
frugi recycled polyester clothing
econyl nylon fabric swimwear

The Truth About Econyl Fabric By Aquafil

Econyl is a regenerated nylon fabric first produced by Italian textile manufacturer Aquafil in 2011. It's an innovative material that encourages sustainability in the global textile and apparel industry. Econyl...
Tiempo De Zafra textile waste hat

Tiempo De Zafra Creates Beautiful Hats From Waste

Tiempo De Zafra is a fashion brand that creates custom on-demand designs from excess textile waste since 2018. This is an idea from Edgar Alejandro Garrido who aims to raise...
Tiempo De Zafra textile waste hat
Winner Virgil Abloh Fashion Prize

The Amazing Winner of Virgil Abloh Fashion Prize

Rising designer Danielle Elsener won a USD 59,000 grand prize from Virgil Abloh and Evian. It's part of a new sustainability grant announced during New York Fashion Week. Virgil Abloh...
women denim jean

The Amazing Denim Jean Revolution By Fraunhofer IAP

Conventional denim manufacturing is one of the most polluting processes in today's global fashion industry. A group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam,...
women denim jean
oave sportswear

How O'ave Makes Epic Eco Sportswear in Germany

O'ave is the latest sustainable sportswear brand from Germany. It creates environmentally friendly activewear from ocean waste. Its founders Sören Romboy and Pia Steffens believe in exercise, in a healthy...
nike recycled canvas

How Nike Latest Viral Sneakers Push Toward Zero Waste

American multinational corporation Nike is continuing to push toward zero carbon and zero waste in an attempt to protect the future of sports. Its latest viral sneakers, the Nike Sportswear...
nike recycled canvas
bioplastic clothes

Are Bioplastics Biodegradable

Whether you are looking for more sustainable fabrics for your wardrobe or an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based plastics, bioplastics or bio-based plastics are an amazing option. Also known as...
summer beach

10 Tips For a Zero Waste Summer

Now is the time to enjoy your summer with Zero Waste. All kinds of waste are piling up in landfills at an alarming rate. Single-use plastics have a disastrous impact...
summer beach
zero waste

10 Reasons Why Zero Waste Is Impossible

Developing Zero Waste in the world is a much-needed endeavor. Especially in the fashion industry, clothing and other textile wastes are piling up in landfills at an alarming rate. The...
zero waste daniel

Zero Waste Daniel Transforms Fabric Scraps Into Unisex Apparel

Zero Waste Daniel is a sustainable, eco-friendly, and handmade in Brooklyn fashion brand by Daniel Silverstein, a zero-waste lifestyle pioneer, and clothing designer. He creates genderless clothing and accessories with...
zero waste daniel
veja urca vegan sneaker

Sneaker Label Veja Reveals Vegan Urca Design

The latest release of sneaker label Veja is called Urca, a vegan version of the brand’s famous V-12 shoes. Veja uses natural rubber and organic cotton as base materials and...
aluminum cans

Recycling Aluminum Cans for Belts and Bags

London-based sustainable accessory brand Elvis & Kresse is researching a green solution to recycle aluminum cans into buckles and zips for their belts and bags. This initiative is part of...
aluminum cans
Malvern Town FC Wears Eco-Friendly Kits From Hope And Glory

Malvern Town FC Wears Eco-Friendly Kits From Hope And Glory

Malvern Town Football Club is fitted with the eco-friendly kits from Hope + Glory Sportswear for this new season. These kits are made from recycled plastic and are part of...
food crop

Circular Systems Isaac Nichelson on Eco-Fashion Using Food Waste

Sustainable fashion is one of the biggest challenges of our time. It requires new technologies, innovations, and infrastructure developments. One of them is using food waste to create eco-friendly fibers...
food crop
plastic girl pool

Sustainable Alternatives to Recycled Plastic You Should Know About

Conscious consumers now look for sustainable synthetic fabrics as the more ethical and responsible choice for clothing, especially in activewear and sports apparel. Recycled plastics including recycled polyester and nylon...
Mattathinte Noolizha St. Teresa’s College Sustainability Project

Mattathinte Noolizha St. Teresa’s College Sustainability Project

St. Teresa’s College has launched a sustainability project called "Mattathinte Noolizha" to educate students about responsible consumption of fast fashion. St. Teresa's College is an autonomous women's college located at...
Mattathinte Noolizha St. Teresa’s College Sustainability Project
trash the runway

Trash The Runway Recycled Couture Fashion Show

Trash the Runway - Recycled Couture is putting on a fashion show for students in grades 6-12 with sustainability in mind. The annual event is organized by the Common Threads...
thrift clothes

Instagram Thrift Accounts Helping Sustainable Fashion

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown, many young shoppers used to visit clothing stores now shop online on their phones. Instagram thrift accounts raise awareness about sustainable fashion...
thrift clothes
rayon pollution waste landfill

How Long Does Rayon Take to Biodegrade

Rayon is one of the most common fabrics used in the fashion world, alongside cotton and polyester. It's a semi-synthetic fabric or man-made cellulosic fiber. There are many different types...
hong kong

Redress Gets New Headquarters in Hong Kong

Environmental NGO Redress working to reduce waste in the fashion industry just moved into a new headquarter in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. Sham Shui Po is an area of...
hong kong
lanasia beck sisters

Lanasia Sustainable Swimwear Made by Women for Women

Lanasia is a new sustainable swimwear brand made by women for women. Two sisters Lisa-Maria and Anna-Sophia Beck from Ruggell Liechtenstein are proving that sustainability can be sexy. The designer...
fashion kills people

How Your Addiction to Fast Fashion Kills People And Animals

Fast fashion is fun, convenient, cheap, and has gained massive popularity over the last 20 years. Unfortunately, it's responsible for the death of thousands of people and billions of animals...
fashion kills people
fashion documentary

Top 5 Sustainable Fashion Documentaries You Need to Watch

The fashion industry is still the second-largest polluter globally after the oil industry. Luckily, talented filmmakers decided to drive change and spread awareness of environmental and social issues with documentaries...