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SAGES
This company creates naturally-derived dyes created from agricultural waste to replace the use of synthetic dyes that pollute the environment.
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REFIBERD
This company utilized artificial intelligence (AI) and hyperspectral imaging to sort discarded textiles for recycling.
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WORN WEAR
Patagonia’s Worn Wear offers a platform for customers to buy used versions of Patagonia’s gear, thereby encouraging re-use and resale.
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THE REAL REAL
Online marketplace for luxury consignment goods, thereby facilitating reuse and resale of high-end clothing and other luxury goods.
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TROVE
This company offers a secondary market to brands to creating a platform that enables buy back and resale of the brand’s items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.
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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.
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BANANATEX
This company is creating a biodegradable fabric out of banana plants.
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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.
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BENI
This company provides a browser extension that makes it easier to purchase a used version of a desired item, thereby decreasing friction related to re-use and resale.
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SOJO
This company provides an app that makes clothing repair accessible, thereby extending the life of clothes derived from the fashion industry.
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RECYC LEATHER
This company rescues leather scraps and creates a new leather material by combining it with other inputs.
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RUBY MOON
This company creates fashionable swimwear using a nylon fiber created using rescued fishing nets from the ocean.
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AMBERCYCLE
This company regenerates end-of-life textiles into new virgin raw materials that can be reused in the clothing industry.
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EON
This company provides a digital traceability system for the fashion industry that helps brands identify, track and manage items to encourage resale, recycling and other secondary market capabilities.
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NUDIE JEANS
This company has incorporated circularity into the life cycle of its jeans, including resale, repairs and a take-back program.
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FOR DAYS
This fashion company specializes in recyclable fashion, and has created a take-back bag that allows customers to send back clothes in exchange for a customer discount.
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BUNDLEE
This company offers a rental service for baby clothes, thereby encouraging reuse and bringing back resources to the business.
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MANY MOONS
This company is circular retailer for children’s fashion, offering used options and also a rental model for children’s clothes.
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LOOPTWORKS
This company is recovering end-of-life textiles and bringing them back to the economy through circular solutions like recycling, upcycling and downcycling.
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THREDUP
This company makes used clothing more accessible by connecting users to a large online inventory of used clothing and fashion items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.
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RENT THE RUNWAY
Pic Credit: Bloomberg The circle of it: This company is an e-commerce platform that allows users to rent and subscribe to designer clothes, thereby using a leasing/rental model for clothing. ” At the most conservative end, we have tripled the lifetime of garments while still looking brand-new, compared to what you could do on your own.
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CIRC
This company has created technology to take textile waste and recycle them into new raw materials that can be used endlessly for new clothes instead of using virgin raw materials.
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RESORTECS
This company makes clothing disassembly and upcycling more feasible by creating a dissolvable thread that degrades in certain heat conditions.
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