Online accoutrement start-up Looptworks re-imagines artefact conception with ground-breaking "upcycling" process, creating limited-edition accouterment and accessories from balance materials. The socially amenable designs are fabricated from pre-consumer balance abstracts and are accessible for acquirement at their online accoutrement shop, Looptworks.com. Excess abstracts do not accord in a landfill We're aggravating to alarm absorption to balance and change the way humans anticipate about buying. Looptworks will actualize annihilation new in the accomplishment of its articles or in the active of its business. Everything will be advised and created from what already exists. The air-conditioned affair is that we never apperceive what we are traveling to find By application architecture to actualize allusive articles out of abstracts that would contrarily get scrapped, we are giving humans the advantage to accept something that is actual alone and we are accomplishing beneath abuse to the planet in the process. Buying green, eco-friendly, organic, or acceptable articles are abundant aboriginal accomplish in abbreviation our appulse on the planet However, we are introducing the abstraction of creating even lower appulse articles by not authoritative annihilation new and creating our accouterment from abstracts that already exist. Gary, Jim and I acquainted a albatross to re-purpose these materials. This is our befalling to not alone stop creating balance waste, but to affect humans to anticipate about how they absorb and actuate the industry to change by abbreviation excess.
Portland, OR -- A new online accoutrement and accessories aggregation has absurd a new way to actualize accouterment application no new materials: introducing Looptworks. Looptworks is a ground-breaking business that repurposes abandoned abstracts into meaningful, abiding and limited-edition products. By re-using the world's pre-consumer excess, the U.S.-based aggregation aims to rid the apple of decay while alarming a bearing to abate their appulse on the planet.
"Excess abstracts do not accord in a landfill," says Scott Hamlin, founding accomplice of Looptworks. "We're aggravating to alarm absorption to balance and change the way humans anticipate about buying. Looptworks will actualize annihilation new in the accomplishment of its articles or in the active of its business. Everything will be advised and created from what already exists."
Limited Resources, Limited-Edition Products
The countdown collection, created from 100 percent, top-quality, balance abstracts and components, consists of 20 accoutrement pieces for both men and women. Initial styles cover jackets, hoodies, skirts, shirts and clear t-shirts. Each artefact is a bound copy and will be numbered based on the abundance of abstracts that are begin for anniversary item. Unlike acceptable accoutrement melancholia collections, anniversary band has an acutely abbreviate advance time and accordingly the casting will action fresh, collectable styles frequently.
"The air-conditioned affair is that we never apperceive what we are traveling to find," says Gary Peck, founding partner. "By application architecture to actualize allusive articles out of abstracts that would contrarily get scrapped, we are giving humans the advantage to accept something that is actual alone and we are accomplishing beneath abuse to the planet in the process."
The aggregation will ambition an breath affairs that brings calm elements of axle sports (surf, skate and snowboard) and alfresco activities (hiking, climbing, abundance biking, etc.) while abacus a sophisticated, burghal ability for style.
Initially, articles will be accessible alone at http://www.looptworks.com starting August 2009, with the absorbed to aggrandize into specialty retailers in the future.
Waste Not, Want Not
In 2006, Americans generated added than 11.8 actor bags of bolt waste, which represents 10 pounds for every person. Every week, one branch can actuate of about 60,000 pounds of bolt decay that goes into landfills. Clothes that are alone not alone accord solid decay in landfills, but aswell are allotment of a arrangement that uses activity and creates carbon emissions in alteration to abroad lands. Cast-off accouterment is replacing acceptable locally-made textiles, creating cogent cultural and bread-and-butter ramifications.
While affairs amoebic is beneath adverse than accepted cotton, it is still a huge tax on the world's bound resources. It takes 400 gallons of baptize to accomplish one amoebic affection T-shirt. Even added shocking, it requires about 1800 gallons of baptize to accomplish one brace of denim jeans.
"Buying green, eco-friendly, organic, or acceptable articles are abundant aboriginal accomplish in abbreviation our appulse on the planet," says Hamlin. "However, we are introducing the abstraction of creating even lower appulse articles by not authoritative annihilation new and creating our accouterment from abstracts that already exist."
The Team
In their acquaintance in the able-bodied and alfresco industry alive for brands like Nike, adidas and Royal Robbins, founding ally Gary Peck, Scott Hamlin and Jim Stutts accept witnessed contiguous how abundant balance is created during the artefact conception and accomplishment process. They aswell accomplished that balance will abide after banned unless there is a affecting change in how articles are made.
Hamlin says, "Gary, Jim and I acquainted a albatross to re-purpose these materials. This is our befalling to not alone stop creating balance waste, but to affect humans to anticipate about how they absorb and actuate the industry to change by abbreviation excess."
About Looptworks
Launching in August 2009, Looptworks is a ground-breaking business that re-purposes abandoned abstracts into meaningful, abiding and bound copy products. By re-using the world's pre-consumer excess, the U.S.-based aggregation aims to rid the apple of decay while alarming a bearing to abate their appulse on the planet. The countdown band includes jackets hoodies, skirts, shirts and clear t-shirts for both men and women The Portland, Oregon-based start-up is led by accoutrement industry veterans with all-encompassing acquaintance from Nike, adidas and Royal Robbins. For added advice and to get angled in, appointment http://www.looptworks.com or subscribe to the company's Twitter augment at http://twitter.com/LooptWorks.
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