Re-Loved Apparel
At Re-loved Apparel, our mission is clear: to reduce the clothing industry's environmental impact on our planet and make sustainable products the new standard
About
Re-loved Apparel is Australia’s first and only wholesale apparel and merchandise supplier 100% committed to producing premium quality certified sustainable products.
The brand was born when founder Jay Walton realised the clothing industry is the 3rd largest contributor to global warming. As an indigenous man with a close connection to country, Jay decided to merge his passion for fashion and his environmental ethics to create a brand committed to offering environmentally conscious consumers sustainable alternatives when looking for branded promotional apparel and merchandise.
Jay understands that the environmental crisis humanity is facing can feel like a problem too big for a single individual to make a noticeable difference, however, as a clothing industry veteran, when he considered how many garments and promotional products commercial organisations order in a week, month or year, he saw a unique opportunity to make a huge environmental impact simply by producing products made from sustainable fabrics which recycle and “re-love” plastic waste into premium quality products with no compromise on quality or price.
Every single product produced by Re-loved Apparel is made from certified sustainable fabrics in state of the art production facilities which all comply with international non-slavery and ethical standards, meaning you can be confident our products aren’t just sustainable, they are made in factories meeting global ethical and professional standards.
However, sustainability doesn’t stop at producing sustainable products in flashy factories.
We wanted to set an example in our industry and create a new standard in sustainable business practices by ensuring everything about our business model reduced the carbon footprint produced from our daily operations.
We started by powering our warehouse using 100% renewable energy and then considered how much waste is created when using conventional packaging and decided that if we need to package any products we sell, we will only wrap them in biodegradable packing.
In our research of the worlds highest polluting industries, the transport industry was named as the 5th highest contributor to global warming, so we committed to only using carbon neutral freight to deliver our products.
As an indigenous owned brand, it’s important to us that we help heal country, so we committed to planting trees for every order placed and create what we call a full circle sustainable business model, and with your help we can help create a shift towards more conscious consumerism and spread the love for sustainable apparel and merch.
The clothing industry is the 3rd highest contributor to global warming, producing 10% of the planets C02 emissions.
Why? Because the standard production process of the two most popular fabrics in the industry; cotton and polyester.
Cotton production uses over 250 billion litres of water every year, meaning it takes a staggering 2700 litres of water to product 1 cotton t-shirt. The cotton industry also produces over 220 million tons of C02 every year and the dying of cotton produces harmful chemicals that pollute the worlds rivers and oceans.
Polyester is made through a chemical reaction involving coal, petroleum (from crude oil), air and water.
Polyester production has a lower environmental impact that cotton production in terms of water and land usage, however, the energy required to produce polyester make it a high-impact process. If the polyester industry grows as predicted, by 2050 it could use more than 26% of the carbon budget associated with a 2-degree pathway.
Australia’s only 100% sustainable wholesale supplier. Our full circle of sustainability offers you with high-quality garments that don’t cost the earth.
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