We are super glad to support #Take Back Friday campaign launched by the Eco-fashion brand —Teemill!
With more than 10,000 brands using it, Teemill is the world’s biggest dedicated circular economy platform. It enables users – from global organisations such as WWF, Greenpeace, and BBC Earth, to brands, influencers, artists, and content creators – to create e-commerce stores connected to a circular supply chain, so they can create, sell or remake sustainable and circular clothing products. All Teemill products are designed to be remade with a QR code on the label to send them back.
This Black Friday, Teemill is playing people to send back their old stuff. Using innovative Remill process, Teemill turns returned products into new high-quality products, all of which can go through the same process over and over again. To date, Teemill has diverted 30,000kg of organic cotton from landfill, avoiding 1 million kg of CO2e emissions, and saving 586 million litres of water.
The campaign has the support of organisations including WWF, BBC Earth, and Surfers Against Sewage.
For more details and to send back items visit remillfibre.com
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