Printfresh
A woman-owned luxury printed sleepwear and home goods brand focused on sustainability and extended size offerings.
As a sustainable, eco-friendly business in the fashion and design industry, Printfresh immediately felt a connection to FABSCRAP and the incredible work they do. A charitable, non-profit organization, FABSCRAP recycles and redistributes hundreds of thousands of pounds from the fashion industry in New York City and Philadelphia every year.
Since Printfresh’s inception, we’ve been committed to taking the extra step when producing our organic cotton sleepwear. Our cutting marker (the guide used in the cutting process) allows for a really good consumption percentage of the fabric, and our pattern master efficiently lays out our patterns before hand cutting. These efforts mean that there are very few leftover fabric scraps. All usable scraps are stored for upcycled projects. Our sewing factory partner is one of the cleanest, light filled and environmentally responsible factories we’ve seen. They recycle wastewater on site and are solar powered. Their printing facility (a different location) recycles the waste water from printing and rinsing through a private pipeline, processing and returning it to the facility for reuse.
With that being said, we know not all brands pay this close attention to their fabric waste. We are so happy that organizations like FABSCRAP exist to reduce waste and allow others to participate in the process through volunteering. As a part of 1% pledge, members of the Printfresh team volunteered for two separate sessions at the FABSCRAP location in Philadelphia. Spending our time sorting through textiles into recyclable materials was a fantastic experience. FABSCRAP currently offers service in New York City and Philadelphia where all the material collected (about 7,000lbs per week) is sorted with the help of a large community of volunteers. FABSCRAP hosts two daily volunteer sessions at both locations to help get through all of that material. About half of the material collected is reusable and is made available to their community through a thrift store model- with stores in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and online. The other half that isn’t readily reusable is downcycled into a material called shoddy- used for various forms of insulation.
Our 1% time at FABSCRAP meant so much to us, that Printfresh decided to make the organization our own Giving Tuesday Business. This means that on Giving Tuesday, 15% of our net sales for the day will be donated to FABSCRAP to continue their mission of ending textile waste.
