05.12.2022
Company Closes Fashion Loop by Recycling Old T-Shirts
In the world of fast fashion, the ubiquity of the casual t-shirt with something printed on it seems immeasurable in scope. That’s where Teemill comes in. Claiming a truckload of clothes is dumped in a landfill or burned around the world every second, they’re trying to get a handle on this waste flow by cutting off the t-shirt spigot. Every t-shirt bought from Teemill can be sent back, ground up into cotton fibers, sterilized and remade into new t-shirts in a pair of carbon-neutral factories powered by renewable energy. Every year 100 billion new items of clothing are produced while a truck full of clothing is burned, or buried in a landfill every second. Slowing fast fashion down a bit won't fix it. But when the waste material at the end, and make new products from it at the start, it changes everything. A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Teemill makes new products from the material they recover, and the cycle itself is renewable. Founded on the idea of sustainability, Teemill has a solution. This company utilizes the unsustainable practice of mass-producing single-use t-shirts to its advantage, by collecting them, grinding them and making them into brand new shirts. Credit: BRIGHTVIBES
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
