Creating premium carry put on from Undertaking Clean wetsuits
On common, 800,000,000kg of textiles are thrown away yearly. That’s the equal weight of 1,600,000 elephants, 640,000 double decker buses or the entire inhabitants of New Zealand, twice.
Globally, 87% of that is despatched to landfill or incinerated.
380,000kg of this waste comes from supplies utilized in manufacturing wetsuits.
We’re conscious that as an business, we now have a protracted method to go to be fully sustainable. No model is ideal, no resolution is absolute. If we put our heads collectively, nonetheless, we are able to provide you with methods to chop down on this waste.
We’re tremendous excited to launch three new initiatives that intention to scale back our contribution to landfill by reusing, repurposing & recycling previous merchandise.
Upparel
We’ve partnered with the legends at Upparel, providing shopper an opportunity to upcycle previous garments & wetsuits, incomes credit score to spend on our web site after they achieve this.
Upparel are on a mission to scale back the quantity of textile waste going to landfill yearly, making it as straightforward as attainable for shoppers to reuse, recycle and, the place attainable, upcycle.
As a part of our mission to “shut the loop” in our manufacturing course of, we are able to’t wait to see the constructive impression this partnership can have in each lowering textile waste and in our wider pursuit of a happier planet.
Undertaking Clean x Into Carry
It’s estimated that 380 tonnes of waste generated from wetsuit manufacturing results in trash dumps yearly. At Undertaking Clean, we’re all the time looking out for methods to drive sustainability in our enterprise, so once we found the work Into Carry have been doing, we reached out immediately.
We’re tremendous excited to announce that by partnering with Into Carry, we’re providing surfers a brand new method to upcycle their previous wetsuits, creating bespoke carry luggage & equipment.
Luke Phillips began Into Carry with a love of craft, a eager curiosity within the bag business and a ardour for the planet. Initially utilising waste supplies akin to damaged tarps and umbrellas, he cherished the problem of upcycling our wetsuits into extremely useful, fully sustainable carry luggage.
Sustainability shouldn’t be a chore and it doesn’t should be monotonous. We hope this partnership is a good instance of this and we hope Undertaking Clean’s modern method to sustainability conjures up different companies to see waste as a useful resource too. Trash is available in all sizes and shapes so once we’re designing a bag, we make certain we are able to construct it from all types of supplies. When the chance got here to upcycle wetsuits on their method to the bin, we jumped straight on the stitching machine and located a method to flip it Into Carry.”
Luke Brooks – Founder, Into Carry
The Luggage
We’re tremendous excited to announce the launch of a limited-edition vary of baggage, made out of upcycled Undertaking Clean wetsuits. The vary consists of:
The Café Racer Backpack (RRP $259) – Heaps of area in your laptop computer, lunch and anything you want in your day-to-day enterprise. The Cafe Racer backpack is the proper mixture of enterprise and informal. Really feel assured heading into a gathering, with out heading to dinner wanting such as you simply left one.
The Panorama Tote (RRP $199) – A easy, spacious work-life companion. With comfortable upcycled straps, lengthy sufficient to hold over your shoulder, and a big inside, open prime and talent to face upright, the bag is designed to reinforce accessibility whereas on-the-go.
The Mini Sidekick (RRP $129) – Compact, straightforward, sustainable. The mini sidekick is your good companion for on a regular basis actions. Good and cushty over your shoulder for when your pants pockets don’t fairly have sufficient room.
The Upcycled Laptop computer Case & Pouch (RPR $109)
As an additional growth to our partnership with Into Carry – offering YOU the prospect to upcycle your previous wetsuit into two model new merchandise – a laptop computer case & a Pouch.
For lower than $100, the group at Into Carry will use the supplies out of your previous wetsuit to create these superior new merchandise which can be fully distinctive to you, ship you again the completed article.
Reusing, repurposing & recycling previous supplies wherever attainable in our manufacturing course of is a significant contributor to our pursuit of a happier planet. We’re stoked to have the ability to give you the prospect to do the identical.
For extra details about the upcycling program, head to: https://projectblank.com.au/collections/intocarry
In Pursuit of a Happier Planet
We’re a group of green-minded ocean lovers, united in our pursuit of a happier planet. Throughout all features of our enterprise, we’re consistently looking out for methods to extend sustainability and make sure the solely hint we’re leaving, is footsteps within the sand.
Into Carry shares this mindset, working to revive their relationship with supplies and items by designing merchandise that upcycle waste with out compromising high quality or performance.
To study extra about our sustainability program, please head to:
https://projectblank.com.au/pages/sustainability
About Undertaking Clean
For extra info on our pursuit of a happier planet head to:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/projectblanksurf/
About Into Carry
Born from a love of baggage and a ardour for the planet. Into Carry is the change that Luke (the bag-maker particular person) needed to see on the earth.
Contemplating most of our day jobs don’t contain day hikes, we got down to construct carry put on that helps calm the chaos of recent work & life.
The result’s a rising household of modular luggage that may adapt and develop (virtually) in addition to we are able to.
We love constructing luggage from waste however it’s just one a part of our sustainable product lifecycle. To ensure your bag stands the check of time, we provide free repairs. To ensure it stays useful, it will possibly adapt with our rising vary of modular attachments.
Sooner or later, our relationship with supplies grew to become passive. We’re on a mission to revive it. With our present love for carry put on, we got down to design a very sustainable, actually useful suite of adaptable luggage.
For extra details about Into Carry, please head to:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intocarry.co/
