Sustainable Fibre

Nearly half the world’s clothing contains polyester. And for good reason. It’s long lasting, holds colour well, quick drying, and resistant to creasing for a start. Throw in the ability to create high performance fabrics that wick sweat, block rain and wind and you start to see the reason for that popularity.

One better is recycled polyester.

Recycled polyester, often called rPET, is made primarily from recycled plastic bottles. Around 60 million of these bottles are thrown away each day. For recycled polyester, these bottles are diverted from landfill, ocean and incinerator, then melted down and spun into new polyester fibre.

As a replacement for virgin polyester, this immediately reduces the load on the planet’s finite resources. What’s more, a 2017 life-cycle analysis found that the manufacturing process generates 79% less emissions than producing the virgin fibre.

We are certified to GRS and RCS, which certifies recycled material from the source to the final product.

Certified by Control Union 1229695.

The ‘chain of custody’ that is central to these certifications give us the ability to trace recycled input, for each batch, right back to the source. This is important because raw materials travel through multiple stages and entities in the process of being spun, dyed, knit, cut, and sewn. The chain of custody ensures that what goes in, comes out.

The recycled fibres used in our garments are verified to meet the ISO definition of ‘recycled’, with both pre-consumer and post-consumer material accepted. View garments here that are either already GRS or RCS certified, or transitioning to.