Unifi Repreve celebrates ‘champions’ of sustainability
Unifi has announced the winners of its ninth annual Repreve Champions of Sustainability Awards. These brand and mill partners have contributed to the recycling of 46 billion plastic bottles and the equivalent of one billion T-shirts’ worth of textile and yarn waste into recycled polyester fibres, the company said.
This year, the fibre producer has introduced a new category to recognise those brands that have switched to textile-to-textile recycled polyester. Save the Duck (Italy) and Lafuma (France) took home a Change Maker Award for having converted to Repreve Thermaloop T2T recycled polyester insulation, with Marmot (USA) given an accelerator award for its use of Repreve and ThermaLoop Insulation across multiple products. Game Changer Awards for high-volume textile waste utilisation were attributed to Texollini’s Swim USA range made from Repreve Nylon and Walmart’s Joyspun socks featuring Repreve Takeback, as a first to market in its sector.
Swiss garment collector and sorter won this year’s Sustainable Fabric Innovation for its contribution to Repreve ReCirculate. Bag brand Dagne Dover (USA) was commended for its commitment to circularity. The newcomer award went to QVC’s Me by Jennie Garth range that uses Repreve Our Ocean, and the Made in USA Award was attributed to Walmart Valley Forge Flags, produced by Cotswold Industries with Repreve.
The “leadership of these brands demonstrates how recycled and circular materials can scale across categories while maintaining performance and quality,” commented Unifi CEO Eddie Ingle.
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