Category: fashion

• GUMDROP

  

  This company is creating awareness and plastic alternatives with used gum.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 31, 2024

  education, Europe, fashion, new material, shoes, UK, upcycling

  chewing gum, education, gumtec, upcycling

• RECOVER BRANDS

  

  This company offers clothing and other accessories created from recycled bottles and recycled textile fibers, thereby creating a new material from post-consumer waste.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  clothing, clothing recycling, clothing upcycling, fashion, new material, north carolina, plastic waste, plastic waste, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, take back, upcycling, used clothes

  clothing, post consumer textile waste, takeback

• HAMILTON PERKINS COLLECTION

  

  This upcycling company creates beautiful lifestyle products from recycled materials

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 25, 2024

  billboard vinyls, consumer product, fashion, luxury fashion, online marketplace, pineapple, pineapple fiber, plastic waste, plastic waste, upcycling

• BLUEVIEW FOOTWEAR

  

  This company is making biodegradable shoes from algae-based polyurethanes and other biodegradable materials.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  Biodegradable, biodegradable polyurethane, california, fashion, seaweed, shoes, textiles, USA

  algae, biodegradable polyurethane, biodegradable shoes, seaweed, shoe knit technology

• BANANATEX

  

  This company is creating a biodegradable fabric out of banana plants.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  banana, banana plants, Biodegradable, clothing, fashion, new material, philippines, reforestation, switzerland, textiles, upcycling, vegan textile

• EVRNU

  

  This company transforms post-consumer textile waste into a new raw material that can be used to create new textiles and clothes using their proprietary fiber technology, thereby reducing the amount of post-consumer waste ending up in landfill.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  Biodegradable, california, clothing, clothing recycling, designed to be remade easily at end of life, fashion, fiber separation, new material, post-consumer textile waste, recycle, USA

  Biodegradable, clothing recyclling, fiber separation, new material, nucycl, post-consumer textile waste

• HUUE

  

  This company uses biotechnology to create sustainable and non-toxic dyes for the clothing industry.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 24, 2024

  california, DNA technology, dyes, fashion, microbes, non-toxic ink, plastic-free, protein fermentation, textiles, USA

  jeans, microbes, microbial secretions, plastic-free dyes

• SOJO

  

  This company provides an app that makes clothing repair accessible, thereby extending the life of clothes derived from the fashion industry.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  bikes, clothing, digital platform, Europe, fashion, Re-use, Repair, reusable clothing, UK

  app, fashion, Repair, repair app, repair by bike, repair service, seamstress

• ATKO PLANNING

  

  This company rescues surplus leather and leather scraps and develops leather materials including leather fiber, leather spun yarn and leather textiles.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  Asia, fashion, korea, leather, leather alternative, leather upcycling, luxury fashion, pre-consumer textile, textiles, upcycling

  leather alternative, leather scraps, leather yarn, recycled leather, recycled suede, upcycled leather

• RECYC LEATHER

  

  This company rescues leather scraps and creates a new leather material by combining it with other inputs.

  Vandana Balakrishnan

  January 23, 2024

  Asia, clothing, fashion, hong kong, leather, leather alternative, leather upcycling, luxury fashion, textiles, upcycling

  fashion, leather alternative, leather scraps, leather upcycling