Buy. Wear. Return.

Clothing is the second biggest contributer to waste in our oceans and land. “Of the 100 billion garments produced each year, 92 million tonnes end up in landfills.” (Martina Igini, 2023).

 

The average US consumer throws away 81.5lbs of clothes every year and around 2,150 pieces per second countrywide. An estimated 11.3 million tons of textile waste – up to 85% of all textiles produced– end up in landfills on a yearly basis. The amount of wears per garment is declining, 36% in 15 years, a garment is only worn around 7 to 10 times before being thrown away. Nearly 10% of mircoplastics emmited into our oceans comes from clothing.

So what can you do to reduce textile waste? Firstly buy less and buy better. Priortise quality and wear your pieces for as long as possible. Fast fashion is a big contributor to our waste issues, buying cheap clothing that only lasts a season is not feasable for a sustianable future. Donate any clothing you dont want anymore, giving new life to the garment for someone else to enjoy. Shop second hand or upcycle your pieces already in yout closet.

What can we do to manage textile waste? We upcycle all our unsellable pieces and dead stock into new sellable products or use for the sampling process. We have made things like baby beanies, singlets, socks and samples using our pieces that we can’t sell or aren’t selling.

 

But we want to do more....

Introducing our new takeback scheme. We will offer to take back any of our products, offering services to mend holes and return to you, upcycle into new products or dispose of in the correct way.

 

How Does it work?

Once you are finished wearing your Swoolly by Scanlan Garment, contact us to set up the take back. You can drop to us at our stockshop or return through post.  

What happens to the Garment?

1. We cut it up and use it for sampling or upcycling 

2. We mend any holes 

3. We dispose of properly