Reading Time: 3 minutes“One person’s trash is another’s treasure.”
Textile and clothing recycling is a beneficial activity for both sides – we have companies which are providing us with needed clothes and on the other hand we have customers with specific needs, tastes and preferences. Each year we buy lots of new clothes which are more trendy or just because we like them, not because we really need them. People throw away their old clothes every year statistically each American throws away 37 kilograms of textile and clothing per year! Only 15 % of this number gets donated or recycled. Why shouldn’t we make it 100 % recycled?
Evrnu is a startup with specific social purpose. This company is registered in the State of Washington, USA. By 2014 Evrnu started collecting money from investors. Evrnu makes cotton recyclable. People create 12 millions tons of textiles each year. Millions tons of clothing are landfilled but soon it will only be a history.
Evrnu makes cotton recyclable, taking the millions of tons of garment waste and up cycling it into premium fiber for the use in new, high-quality garments.
Facts about clothing industry worldwide:
China’s Textile Industry is the largest producer of cotton shirts worldwide, creating an output of 60 million garments a year. This is nearly 54% of the world’s total production. Now think about the producing process.
To produce one t-shirt company must use 700 gallons of water! Each year China is using 2,5 billion tons of wastewater every year only for textile industry.
Evrnu makes cotton recyclable, taking the millions of tons of garment waste, and upcycling it into premium fiber for the use in new, high-quality garments
Facts about clothing industry worldwide:
China’s Textile Industry is the largest producer of cotton shirts worldwide, creating an output of 60 million garments a year. This is nearly 54% of the world’s total production. Now think about the producing process.
To produce one t-shirt company must use 700 gallons of water! Each year China is using 2,5 billion tons of wastewater every year only for textile industry.
They give the opportunity to recycle the products that they already made by those brands. As an example, Levi Strauss and Co. company produce first pair of 511 model jeans by using five discarded cotton T-shirts and the Evrnu technology. This available to use 98% less of water during the overall process of production.
How supply chain with implemented Evrnu technology looks:
Resource extraction and waste are eliminated! New fiber can be produced from the products we are throwing to garbage.
“One person can do a lot but a team can achieve impossible.”
If you would like to get more information about the Evrnu company here you can find video:
Sources:
Levi’s comes up with jeans composed of cotton waste
https://www.evrnu.com/blog-posts/2016/5/20/gotta-break-it-down-to-build-it-up-1
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/09/old-clothes-fashion-waste-crisis-494824.html
https://www.evrnu.com
Levi Strauss & Co. + EvrNu Create First Pair of Jeans From Post-Consumer Cotton Waste
https://www.thebalance.com/textile-recycling-facts-and-figures-2878122
https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i26/Cleaning-clothing-industry.html
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/evrnu-the-future-of-apparel–2#/
