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This collection has been built by a community of passionate researchers, students, and industry professionals as part of <a href="https://worldcirculartextilesday.com/" target="_blank">World Circular Textiles Day</a> (WCTD). 


World Circular Textiles Day takes place every year on 8th October.  Our vision is to galvanise the collective ambitions and goals of people, organisations and businesses to reach a fully circular textiles world by 2050. Our mission is to provide a framework for circularity stakeholders to develop and deliver a collaborative, evolving roadmap and to chart circularity’s momentum annually from the 8th of October until 2050.

What does fully circular by 2050 mean?
- Shared textile resources, in the form of products and raw materials, are kept in **continual circulation**.
- Virgin resources are **replaced with circular materials**.
- Dignity, equity, and equality for the **people** involved in all parts of the circular value chain.

We need to know where we stand today to chart how to get to 100% Circularity by 2050. What circular activity is currently happening in the textiles and apparel industry, and where in the world is it happening? The WCTD Collection aims to answer this question by building the world’s largest digital library of circular textiles case studies. 

World Circular Textiles Day is proud to be supported by our 2022-23 Circular Hero Partners:
[Lenzing](https://www.lenzing.com/), [Texaid](https://retailsolutions.texaid.com/), [Bank & Vogue](https://www.bankvogue.com/), [Usha yarns limited](https://ushayarns.com/), [The Conduit](https://www.theconduit.com/), and [Asia Pacific Rayon](https://www.aprayon.com/en/)

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World Circular Textiles Day

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Business case

Direct and indirect reduction in economic costs

Cost Savings

Reduced use of virgin materials and/or an increase of the use of secondary and bio-based materials

Reduce Material Consumption (SDG12)

Minimise waste through diversion: Instead of sending waste to landfill, it is redirected into other industrial processes for handling, treatment, recycling, recovery, or reuse in various forms. 

Minimise waste through design: At the outset of a process of project, plan and design such that there is zero waste or minimal waste during production, use, and at end of life. 

Minimise Waste (SDG12)

Producing textile and leather products and processing them into apparel and accessories

Fashion and Textiles

Account for the systems perspective during the design process, to use the right materials, to design for appropriate lifetime and to design for extended future use

Design for the future

Designing to reduce waste during production and use

Design out waste

Designing products so they produce as little waste as possible during production

Design for minimal waste

VISION:
Raw materials are renewable, recyclable and safe, kept in continual circulation.

DETAIL:
Imagine a time when…the raw materials that are used to make things are sourced from existing products and regenerative agriculture, via carbon negative and climate neutral processes. Biodegradable raw materials are used for products with biodegradable end routes. Toxic chemicals have been washed out of the global materials pool, disposed of safely and replaced with beneficial alternatives. Virgin fibres made from fossil fuels have been banned, while secondary synthetic fibres, derived from what was already in the system, are kept in constant circulation as a resource. Circularity accounting methods, built on science-based metrics, help to manage a balanced system of resources, across all industries, and in line with the planet’s environmental limits.

Raw Materials and Planetary Boundaries

VISION:
Products and services are designed for multiple use and material value retention, with maximum positive impact.

DETAIL: 
Imagine a time when…products flow via optimal collection and distribution streams into reusable and repairable product platforms. Reuse and access models are dominant, and products are designed for multiple recirculation before biodegrading (if designed to do so), or being broken down into reusable raw materials for production. People only consume what they need. Production and consumption wastes have been fully eliminated and multifunctional, season-less and timeless fashions are the norm, yet still fulfil our human need for expression and creativity without constraint. All business models, organisations, governments and citizens play a role in maintaining a healthy, functioning circular ecosystem.

Products and Services

Impacts

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Industries

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The principles of a circular economy concern designing out waste, regenerating ecosystems and keeping items in use. Decoupling the economy from material flows—improving the rate of resource productivity faster than the economic growth rate—is also a consistent guide. By evolving with the growing number of applications of circular economy principles, and consolidating these strategies across thematic areas, Circle Economy’s Key Elements Framework (KE) renders the elements of the circular economy salient and serves as a basis to derive contextual strategies and interventions. 


The Framework consists of:
- Core Elements: Activities directly handling product or material flows; and uniquely,
- Enabling Elements: those that remove obstacles for core actors.


Key elements of the circular economy

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Circle Economy's framework of strategies and activities that define the circular economy

It is 2050.  Full systems change has taken place. This wouldn’t have been possible without the immediate action and radical steps taken from 2020 onwards. Many targets had to be identified in the early 2020s and achieved by 2030 to ensure that the 2050 goal happened in full. A sense of urgency, turbo stakeholder collaboration, supportive government regulation and clear, data driven targets enabled the mindsets and systems change needed to transform to a fully circular textiles ecosystem.

A circular economics model underpins what we have created. It reflects and supports a living organism made up of makers, users and restorers, interacting across vibrant and interconnected networks. Checks and balances, alongside transparency and accountability, ensure a healthy system. Financial, environmental, and social metrics have the purpose of serving communities and the planet. There is shared ownership of profit and loss – across all three metrics – throughout the value chain.

This is what we’ve achieved over the last 30 years:

WCTD Themes

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Zero Waste Daniel is a New York based clothing designer and zero-waste lifestyle pioneer who uses pre-consumer waste sourced from New York City’s garment industry, as well as other hard-to-recycle materials, to create his line of genderless clothing and accessories that send nothing to landfills. His story and brand went viral in 2017 with more than 35 million views worldwide on NOW THIS, INSIDER, MASHABLE, and BUZZFEED.
Daniel continues to inspire change and make headlines by growing the mission of ending waste culture and redefining the meaning of “sustainable design” as a call to action for all who wish to participate.  As of 2021, his projects have been featured on CNN, BUZZFEED NEWS, PAPER MAGAZINE, and THE NEW YORK TIMES.  “I don't make work that hurts people, or oppresses people, that makes someone hate their body or their face, or that pollutes someones water. I'm willing to work with what we’ve got, I don't care how long it takes, I care that you look good. I care that it's made here, that it’s made fair.” - ZERO WASTE DANIEL
   
Pollution is a problem in the fashion industry. The council for textile recycling said that more than 70 pounds of textiles per US citizen are going into landfills annually. That means over 21 BILLION pounds this year alone. At ZWD, fabric waste is kept at zero. Pattern making techniques, appliqués, tiled mosaics and embellishments absorb one hundred percent of the textile goods that are brought into the make / shop. Each piece from zwd diverts roughly one pound of fabric from hitting landfill.   Zero waste is the goal of both the garments we make and the studio we create in. We use recycled and recyclable materials in our shipping, packaging and office materials as well as a zero waste mindset in everyday company life by eliminating trash wherever possible. We are always improving the process and remaining conscious and aware of areas that have room to change. To date, ZWD has collaborated with brands including Alice + Olivia, Pact, ThredUp, American Express, Google,Nissan as well as the New York City Department of Sanitation. To learn more about working with ZWD, contact us here.  For information about collecting, processing or recycling textile waste, visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
   
Living “zero waste” means sending as little to landfill as possible and avoiding excess packaging when buying consumer products. Living zero waste is not a contest or a challenge, it is a practice. It is about doing your best everyday and being realistic. Nobody is perfect. I believe what I believe, and do my best to live out my most authentic truth everyday.  Living zero waste is also a way to “vote” with your consumer dollars and make sure you are contributing to a regenerative economy and working with like minded businesses who value sustainability and equality as core principals of business and humanity. By avoiding single use items, as well as “fast” goods, we stop funding corporations built on wealth, gender and race disparities simply by shopping here versus there. 
    
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 Skip to content                    Your unique zwd clothes are made out of 100% pre-consumer cutting room scraps, design room waste and leftover materials.        This is the stuff that is usually sent to landfill BEFORE it is ever turning into clothing. It may be the excess fabric of another brand's order, something that was dyed the 'wrong' color, or just a discard after design changes! At ZWD we only use fabrics that have never been previously used or worn.        NO, we don't! :-) We always work with fabric that was discarded BEFORE it was ever turned into finished garments or worn.        The scraps we use come from sample factories in New York City, production studios around the US, and partnerships with brands and fabric recycling non-profits like FabScrap!        Yes! On an industrial scale, some 'scraps' are actually 10's and 100's of yards! At ZWD, we work with discarded pieces large and small.       Very similar! Our unique ReRoll process ensures that the placement of fabric will always be different, but we always create stretch fabrics of similar weights that fit within the same color pallet. Your piece will be unique to you, but very much resemble what's pictured on the website!       Originally founded in 2015, Zero Waste Daniel has grown to include a network of collaborators and contractors across New York City who set their own fair wages and hours.        Machine wash on cold and hang or lie flat to dry.        No, not at all! :-) - At ZWD, we always utilize similar materials that work together to make a standard shape and fit!       You can find our corresponding size charts on each individual product page!      
     For every piece of zwd purchased, roughly one pound of fabric waste is kept from hitting a landfill.       Yes, there is! We offer a 10% discount to students and veterans. email us at info@zerowastedaniel.com with a valid form of identification to get your very own discount code!        Shipping time always depends on the item purchased. ‘In stock’ items ship within 5 business days from purchase date. Custom orders, mosaics, limited edition, and ‘all over reroll' products are handmade in Brooklyn and ship within 2-6 weeks of purchase. Slow fashion isn’t always instant, but we promise to bring you ethically made, impactful pieces that make you look good and feel proud! Check each individual item for individualized information on ship time. If you have questions about current timing, email info@zerowastedaniel.com       Unfortunately, we can't take on all donations (even though we'd love to.) If you'd like to inquire about fabric donations, please e-mail info@zerowastedaniel.com with a photo of what you are hoping to donate! We cannot accept any finished, worn, or old garments (it just isn't what we work with , but encourage you to do some research on local donation sites near you!)                     Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. Press the space key then arrow keys to make a selection. 


By Ellen WulfhorstNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unlike some designers, Daniel Silverstein doesn’t mind when others freely copy his style. In fact, the designer of fashion from scraps and fabric remnants welcomes imitators.“The more people that do this, the more we see a solution,” the New York-based designer told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “My job is to keep innovating and pushing forward and creating new things for people to rip off.”Silverstein, whose fashion company is Zero Waste Daniel, creates clothing from bits and bolts of leftover cloth, with an eye to using, reusing and recycling all that he can.From a storefront studio in the city’s Brooklyn borough, he makes unisex jogging pants, teeshirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and jackets, mostly black with colorful patchwork, as well as cloth pouches and patches.A standout piece is a bright orange coat created from remnants inherited from the New York City Department of Sanitation.He typically starts with fabric from FabScrap, a local non-profit where designers and other clothes makers deposit a cornucopia of leftover bolts, samples, scraps, zippers, buttons, yarn, tassels and ribbons.“I see potential everywhere,” Silverstein said. “It’s about looking at things from a different perspective. You only see trash if you choose to.“I am able to look at these little scraps every day and say, ‘You’re going to leave here as something beautiful and not in a garbage bag,’ and that feels really good.”Nearly three-fifths of all clothing winds up burned in incinerators or dumped landfills, according to the New Standard Institute, a fashion industry sustainability group.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that in 2017, about 17 million tons of textiles were created in the United States and more than 11 million tons were deposited in landfills. About 2.6 million tons were recycledHoping to have an impact, Silverstein is one of several designers paying attention to sustainability in their work.Women’s clothing designer Eileen Fisher has a program for buying back and reselling used pieces, and online clothing retailer Reformation lists a sustainability measure for each item for sale on its website.Outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia runs an online store called Worn Wear for buying and selling its used goods, and its competitor Columbia makes high-performance rain wear out of recycled plastic bottles.Silverstein takes pride in putting sustainability at the heart of what he creates.“I don’t think of sustainability as a filter or a lens,” he said.“For me, it’s the mission of zero waste and inspiring a generation of designers to follow suit and make better choices with their design and solve problems with their design.”FAST-FASHION AND THE PLANETMore than 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions is produced by the apparel and footwear industry, according to the New Standard Institute.Also, consumers are keeping their clothing purchases about half as long as they did in 2000, according to a 2016 research by McKinsey & Co. Management consultants.Sustainable fashion can mean upcycling fabric into new fashions, like Silverstein does, minimizing water usage, dyes and pesticides or making goods to last and not quickly discarded for the next fast-fashion trend, experts say.“Upcycling is definitely a more sustainable way to do things because you’re keeping textiles out of landfill or being burned, and you’re not requiring the production of more fabric,” said Alden Wicker, a New York-based sustainable fashion expert and consultant.“As an option for consumers who are concerned about what their fashion purchases are doing to the planet and people, I think it’s an amazing solution.“Whether it represents the solution to the issues in the fashion industry, probably not,” she said. “It’s one piece, one small part of the larger puzzle of trying to reform the fashion industry.”Its drawbacks include limits on how much such a business can grow, she said.Silverstein, 31, attended New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and worked for a handful of designers before setting out on his own.In 2015, he started Zero Waste Daniel to give new life to fabric scraps.With his husband and business partner Mario DeMarco, Silverstein sells directly to consumers online and from his store and shows his work during New York’s semi-annual Fashion Week.For now, he does not work with retailers but said he would be open to collaboration to spread his message.“It’s not just about making money. It’s also about making an impact,” he said. “I don’t have to be part of that system that’s accelerating climate change.”Additional reporting by Roselle Chen and Ros Russell Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights and climate change. Visit news.trust.orgOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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 Upcycling of Pre-consumer Textiles Waste
Textile industry is among the most essential consumer goods industry. However, textile industry is accused of being one of the most polluting industries. Not only production but consumption of textiles also produces waste. To counter the problem, textile industry has taken many measures for reducing its negative contribution towards environment. One of such measures is textile recycling- the reuse as well as reproduction of fibres from textile waste. And today another is textile upcycling as sustainability measure.
Because of alarming level of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the environment, fast depleting natural resources such as water, petroleum products and increasing level of industrial effluents, every single manufacturing activity has come under the scrutiny of sustainability specially the textile industry. According to Environmental Protection Agency report, the total amount of willow waste generated in India is about 80,000 to 85,000 tons per annum, and this obviously needs proper treatment apart from disposal as landfill.
Economic growth is the main goal of today’s industrial infrastructure which happens, at the expense of the world’s health.
Textile materials form a large chunk of human consumption and as the standard of life is improving globally the per capita consumption of textiles and apparels is also increasing.
In this backdrop, the affluent segment of the society is adopting “make-use-and-throw” approach, which is giving rise to large scale manufacturing on one hand and the pressure of disposing of the used clothing on the other.
The researchers in the field of sustainability are thus talking about responsible consumption and recycling as well as upcycling of used or unused/ waste materials. By refurbishing of such used apparels by involving minimum processing and value addition technique, it is possible that once again, such products can be put into useful purpose.  In a world still churning out trendy throw-away fashion pieces at breakneck speed, the idea of upcycled or refashioned apparel can be an anomaly.
Millions of tonnes of textiles are wasted every year, before the clothes have even reached the consumers yet. Approximately 15% of textiles intended for garments end up on the cutting room floor. The value of pre-consumer and post-consumer waste is undermined. Upcycling is important because it is a technique which enables designers to prolong textiles’ lifecycles and slow down unnecessary textile production, which is dependent on natural resources.
As upcycling makes use of already existing pieces, it often uses few resources in its creation and actually keeps ‘unwanted’ items out of the waste stream. There are more textiles produced in the world today than can be used – many of the large clothing chains can produce as many as a half a billion garments a year. And what happens to those clothes after they have fulfilled their ‘useful’ lives? Discarded. If not discarded as trash, unwanted apparel is often donated to thrift stores. Though a good step toward avoiding the landfill, this is not as beneficial as people think – only about 20 to 30 percent of donated clothing is actually re-sold.
R3 : Reduce, reuse and recycle has become the buzzword among urbanites to reduce the heaps of waste piling up in cities across India. While plastic, paper and glass waste materials are being recycled to some extent, clothes are rarely being reprocessed. Textiles and clothing material are nearly 100% recyclable. More and more people are giving away their old attire for recycling, but huge time and energy are spent to change the physical properties of the waste material.
Upcycling clothes is a better way to reuse old clothes without going through the textile recycling process that is energy and resource intensive. This is not a new concept, since modern-day upcycling originates from the 1930-40s, when families had very little economic ability or material resources during the World Wars. Even today, upcycling is a way of life for people in rural areas of developing countries as raw materials are expensive, so they use what they can find to create handicrafts, clothing, baskets, jewelry and other useful items.
What is “textile waste”? 
Like all wastes, textile waste originates from the community via number of streams including the fibres, textile or clothing manufacturing industries, consumers, commercial and service industries.
Type of textile waste 

Pre-consumer textile waste 2. Post-consumer textile waste 3. Industrial textile waste

What is upcycling?
Upcycling is a way of processing an item to make it better than the original. In the example of clothing, this is often taking something that doesn’t fit or is stained or torn, dead stock and refashioning a wearable product from it.
Upcycling can be done using either pre-consumer textile waste or post-consumer textile waste or Industrial textile waste or a combination of the three.
post-consumer textile waste results from the finished product reaching the end of its useful life for the consumer (such as a T-shirt that doesn’t fit anymore).
Pre-consumer textile waste is a waste material before it reaches to consumer (such as fabric and garment samples, overstock, fabric from the end of rolls ) or is a material that was discarded before it was ready for consumer use (such as defective printing, dying & finishing of fabrics) or is produced while items are being manufactured (such as the pieces of fabric leftover after cutting out a pattern).
Pre-consumer waste is the reintroduction of manufacturing scrap back into the manufacturing process. Pre-consumer waste is commonly used in manufacturing industries, and is often not considered recycling in the traditional sense. This waste is generally clean waste.
Industrial textile waste is generated from commercial and industrial textile applications including commercial waste such as carpets and curtains. This waste is generally “dirty waste”. A substantial proportion of these end-of-life goods are incinerated or dumped to landfills.
This waste can be from over ordering, brands order 3-10% more than necessary, some luxury brands destroy their overstock to protect their brand. Faulty fabric caused by rinting/weaving errors or the wrong colouring. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fabric are wasted at the design and production stage before clothing reaches the customer.
Today however, due to fast fashion and throwaway culture there is an abundant in textile waste. “Manufacturers and designers in the mainstream fashion industry discard on average 15 percent of materials end route to production.” – EcoFashionTalk.com One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure
How is upcycling different from recycling?
“If recycling is about repurposing, upcycling is about re-valuing and creating a new price-tag for the same piece. In other words, the process of upcycling adds value to the materials and the other decreases its value.
Upcycling is to say that recycling is great, but it requires energy and resources to gather, sort and process the waste only to make something less out of it. Hence, upcycling is an even greener way of recycling, and better environmentally.
How does upcycling save water and air?
The problem: There is a continued growth of solid waste and in the overuse of Earth’s resources, particularly water. In textile waste alone, the average apparel factory discards about 60,000 pounds of perfectly usable, pre-consumer textiles every single week.
The solution: Upcycling excess and reducing the amount of waste.
 Is Upcycling textile waste the next frontier of environmentally responsible clothing and accessories?
Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value.
It’s tough to say if upcycling textile waste will be the next frontier. It’s definitely a necessary step in closing the loop on textile manufacturing. Human beings are the only species on the planet capable of creating excess, and the amount of excess we create was magnified by the rise of the industrial revolution. What we need to do now as a society is get that excess under control and eliminate it whenever possible.
So, finding ways to re-use or use up the resources already created is the most important way to create an endless supply of materials without further depleting natural resources. The two most popular fabrics in the world, polyester and cotton, are already putting a strain on the environment, and this situation will only get worse. The average apparel factory throws away 60,000 pounds of usable, pre-consumer excesses EVERY week. That’s brand-new thread, fabric, buttons, etc. that is simply leftover after a product is made.
So, if it takes turning all of this excess material into cool, hip and fashionable products to get people to wake up to these facts, then yes, textile waste truly is the next frontier in environmentally responsible clothing and many other products!
Benefits of upcycling
Upcycling stops adding stuff to a world that is already overwhelmed with material things. It also reuses materials that may otherwise end up in the landfill in creative and innovative ways – producing original often one-of-a-kind items from what many consider to be waste. It is a way for companies and designers to be more efficient with leftover materials such as upholstery scraps or vintage textiles and to give new life to worn-out jeans and tattered T-shirts.
The benefits of upcycling include resource conservation, less carbon footprints, saving energy, and saving landfill space. When you buy an upcycled product made from discarded materials, you are directly offsetting the water and energy needed to make new materials from scratch to produce the same product. And in the process, you are helping to conserve resources.
“It’s a challenge to see what we have, and what we can do with it.”
For designers, upcycling presents an opportunity to practice creativity skills, but also to reduce impact on the environment, simply by reusing their own or others’ waste.
Giving a second life to textiles can result in one-of-a-kind items as well as reproducible products. Again, there are many different ways to upcycle. Updating and modernising old garments is one take on it. This refers to readymade garments that didn’t sell or are no longer in use. Often, these discarded garments are in fine condition, and simply need some aesthetic adjustments to become interesting and appealing again. Another method is that of deconstructing and recombining waste products, so that the parts are reused but in different ways. This can be done by using old garments, but also leftover swatches, production off-cuts and end-of-roll textiles.
So, it is up to the designer to find the potential and beauty that lies in old textiles, and to decide on what they should become.
Pre-consumer textile waste is made up of manufacturing waste that has not reached the consumer.

Textile swatches are leftover textile sample swatches from the production process.
Cut-and-sew waste is textile scraps generated during garment manufacturing. It is often considered waste and is discarded due to its uneven and small formats.
End-of-rolls are factory surplus textiles that have been left over from garment manufacturing.
Sampling yardage is factory surplus waste leftover from textile sample manufacturing.
Clothing samples are part-finished or finished clothing samples from the design and production of clothing.
Damaged textiles are unused textiles that have been damaged for example with colour or print defects, rendering them unusable.
Unsold clothing waste is clothing (finished or unfinished) that has not been sold.
deadstock, to end-of-use discarded garments
Brand-new thread, fabric, buttons, etc left at fashion and production house

The beauty of upcycling is that each designer has a unique take on it.
How to do it?
Sourcing textile waste can seem challenging when compared to picking up a new fabric from a supplier, a trade fair or a store. However, sourcing textile waste is a fun and inspiring process that will shape your final design and stretch your creativity.
Don’t be afraid to look at your design process in a new light, because when using the sustainable design techniques of up-cycling and reconstruction, sourcing your textile waste will often be the starting point of your entire design process.
When sourcing textile waste, look for high quality textile waste to ensure that your new design will be durable and last long in its new wardrobe. Don’t be afraid of a hole or rip. Instead, work around minor defects or let defects become a design feature and remember that mistakes can be beautiful too! If you are looking for a particular fabric but don’t find the colour you want it in, you can reprint or re-dye it to your preferred taste.
Last but not least, don’t forget to clean the textile waste to make sure that the final product is fresh and new in the eyes and noses of the consumer.

Follow your own textile waste stream
Contact factories and textile mills
Visit trade fairs and showrooms
Check your textile shop
Go online
Reach out to your network
Raid wardrobes
Go to secondhand stores and markets
Get in touch with recyclers
Contact brands
Think outside the box

Who is doing it?
The world of upcycling has exploded in the past few years, and there is a plethora of inspirational design in this facet of eco-fashion. Here are some inspiring examples of designers who use different approaches to Pre- Consumer textile waste upcycling.
Bunko Junko

Bhavini Parikh. Single-handedly, with her venture, she is preventing thousands of kgs of fabric waste from reaching the landfills! This is not through recycling of the fabric or re-using in the manufacturing process. What Bhavini is doing is re-purposing the fabric to create her own fashion brand – Bunko Junko.
Bunko Junko diverts the scrap generated in textile manufacturing units away from landfills and into it’s design space.  Bhavini herself is creative designer and her team of dedicated designers create magic out of the textile scrap, literally transforming it from pieces of unrelated fabric to a fashion statement. Although formally registered in 2017-18, Bhavini and her team have been upcycling the fabric for the last 3 years and the customer base is growing. Chindi
 
Chindi started as a fun project from Tanushri Shukla’s love for knitting. Along with a friend who loved to crochet, the duo started making small things and gifting them to friends. All the raw material was waste that was generated at Tanushri’s family-run wholesale garment manufacturing unit. There are tons of waste fabric that the tailors call ‘chindi’ that are generated every day and, currently, most of this leftover fabric is tossed into garbage.
The response Tanushri got to their tiny gifts was overwhelming and it organically grew into an organization. Chindi started working with women from Mankhud slum in Mumbai in 2015 and has developed itself into a design firm that handcrafts and upcycles knitted products. Tanushri also believes that the best-case scenario for Chindi would be that it becomes redundant and all organizations upcycle their own waste. Goonj

Goonj is a well-known non-governmental organisation based in Delhi. Founded in 1998 by Ashoka Fellow Anshu Gupta, the Goonj project collects unused clothing from all over India to reprocess the materials to provide clothes, sanitary and many other basic amenities to people living in poorer communities across the country. Goonj’s 300+ volunteers includes mass participation of housewives, professionals, students, corporates, who help in sending over 20,000kgs of recycled waste materials every month! A vast network of 100 grassroots agencies across India also help Goonj reach parts of 20 states of India.
 Doodlage
  If you thought upcycling would result in monotonous, shabby pieces, then you need to only look at Doodlage. With sustainability and innovation at its heart, Kriti Tula’s label boasts edgy patchwork jackets, delicate shrugs and exquisite shirts. Tula, who launched Doodlage in 2012, was first drawn to the idea of sustainability during her internship, where she came across large mounds of rejected fabric pieces; she took on the challenge of putting them to better use than to discard them. Over the years she has worked with a number of fabric manufacturers from all over India, using their leftover pieces to create something new and meaningful, thereby making Doodlage one of the most interesting sustainable fashion brands in India. Other Brands 
  
Redress                                                 Fade out label
    
Zero waste daniel                                     Magnafied
  
Black Hack                       Mahala
  
Reclaim to wear                 Pelechecoco                      Tonle
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Article by Ms. Hetal Mistry
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Zero Waste Daniel

<p>Pre-consumer textile waste poses a major concern, as raw materials that are used in the production of the textile are lost, meaning that they have been extracted for nothing, not to mention the possibilities of any negative externalities that go along during the production stages. Zero Waste Daniel collects pre-consumer waste through sample factories, production studios, and partnership with brands and non-profits. It then uses the collected 'waste' to make its garment and accessories collection. Together with its ReRoll™ production technique, each piece diverts around one pound of textile waste from the landfill and is unique from any other pieces.</p>