WITH YOUR HELP WE DIVERTED 100 TONNES FROM LANDFILL
We did it! We achieved our target of 100 tonnes out of landfill. We've used your uniforms to make wonderful, next generation products and now we'll focus on the end game! Making it the norm.
100 Tonnes Diverted From Landfill - Ye Ha!
Make the most of what we use
By partnering with pioneer customers and the NSW EPA, Worn Up has achieved an amazing goal of diverting 100t of textiles from landfill.
We've:
- collected uniforms from schools all over Australia, companies, associations and anyone who could throw them our way!
- experimented for 2 years on reformation and re-use and end product development
- created a great new waste-based composite material.
CSIRO has third-party tested our composite with great results and even written about us in their BLOG Ecos! Feeling proud!
With the Pilot complete and the experts have given it the tick we are ready to create all sots of things but have to get our processes and production in place throughout 2023.
We are so happy to announce the Worn Up Textile Innovation Lab, sponsored by Macquarie Uni Incubator and Ryde Council, will kick-off in February 2023 to drive creation of new circular products from waste textiles.
Collections are paused to allow us to:
- get the Lab going
- get funding in place
- develop manufacturing capability and partnerships ready to scale solutions.
See what CSIRO had to say here.....
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Worn Up's Circular Textile LAB launching in mid 2023
Yep, we're a little crazy.
We see non-wearable uniforms as a great resource to make new things.
But, collecting old textiles doesn't solve the problem. - most recyclers pass the textiles offshore or to other companies. We don't really see where they end-up.
We need to develop end-products and think of meaningful re-use solutions that can then be reformed continuously so the diversion from landfill is real!
In early 2023 and thanks to Macquarie University Incubator and Ryde Council Worn Up will kickstart the first Worn Up Textile Upcycling Lab to advance cicular textile end product development.
Based at Macquarie University and part of the Macquarie University Incubator Innovation Program the Lab will use design thinking and be a place to test crazy, wild ideas with industrial designers, architects and others to make 'stuff from your fluff'.
Openingin mid-2023 to Schools and businesses who want to think BIG with crazy ideas and ways to create new from the old!
Watch this space.
Imagine making a school desk from a school dress, acoustic tiles from scraps Crazy Idea 1 - and - well we did it!
Let's do it
Get on board!
95% of all textile waste in landfill is recyclable.
10% of all global CO2 production comes from textile production
1 cotton t-shirt uses 2,700 litres of water to produce
By UPCYCLING non-wearable uniform waste we reduce landfill, save water and can make new Australian made products.
Textile waste makes great things!
Help us make new things from old and keep over 2,500 tons of uniforms out of landfill!