The team over at Teemill are asking their customers to return old and unwanted Teemill products so that they can reuse and recycle them in what they are calling ‘Take Back Friday’.
Currently, less than 1% of the world’s clothes are made back into new clothes once they are worn out. Teemill was designed to solve that crisis by creating an open-access circular economy supply chain that could be used by anyone in the world.
With more than 10,000 brands using it, Teemill – based in Freshwater – is the world’s biggest dedicated circular economy platform. It enables users – from global organisations such as WWF, Greenpeace, and BBC Earth, to brands, influencers, artists, and content creators – to create e-commerce stores connected to a circular supply chain, so they can create, sell or remake sustainable and circular clothing products.
All Teemill products are designed to be remade using natural materials and renewable energy to make clothing on demand and when items wear out, customers scan a QR code on the label to send them back. In return, they get £5 credit to spend on the future purchase of a circular economy product.
Teemill co-founder Mart Drake-Knight said:
“Black Friday is a symptom of how waste has been woven into the way our world works. Products have been designed to be thrown away, meaning the only way to create growth is make and sell more products and create more waste. It fuels climate change and destroys nature. We built Teemill to solve that issue. Our products are designed from the start to come back and be remade, and that means that instead of creating waste we create new products from it.
“Doing the right thing shouldn’t cost the earth, so we made the platform free because we want to encourage everyone who cares about these issues to have the chance to co-create a more sustainable future with us.”
Among the organisations backing the campaign are Isle of Wight fashion brand Rapanui, BBC Earth, WWF, Marine Conservation Society, the Wildlife Trusts, Shark Trust and The Lion Whisperer.
To send back items visit www.remillfibre.com.
