Fabscrap, a New York-based non-profit organisation, has entirely committed itself to reusing the waste from textile sector — especially textiles that cannot be given or donated.
Each day, around 3,000 pounds of textile waste arrives at Fabscrap’s huge warehouse. It is worth noting that in 2018, Fabscrap collected a total of 1,50,000 pounds of fabrics.
While substantiating on the same, Jessica Schreiber, Founder, Fabscrap, averred that there is a huge scope to do more as that number accounts for only one-third of the textile waste that comes out of New York’s fashion industry.
Schreiber added that her organisation gets busy after fashion shows. “The brands will do a big clean out after a season,” said the young founder.
The company has entered into alliance with nearly 250 ready-to-wear labels and many big fashion houses and the waste collected by them is representative of that variety. Fabscrap provides its customers annual data of how much of their fabric waste is recycled and calculates their carbon footprint savings.
Notably, 54 per cent of the fabric collected is recycled, another 41 per cent is resold and 5 per cent ends up in the landfill.
Schreiber, having a Master’s degree in climate and society from Columbia University, used to personally collect textile waste for the initial year-and-a-half and then bring the waste to her small apartment in taxis or rental trucks. She then used to sort the scraps, and either resold them or took them to a shredder.
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