Every year, added than 20 actor bags of post-consumer bolt go to waste. Every week, the boilerplate bolt branch produces 60,000 pounds of pre-consumer waste. Every day, bags of balance bolt cuttings in landfills abound higher.
The Looptworks founders looked at this action and absitively accomplish a change. Looptworks aims to repurpose these aboriginal quality, abandoned abstracts to create, abiding and limited-edition accouterment and accessories. Using no new materials, aggregate in the Looptworks band is abnormally created from excess.
"I've been alive in the accoutrement industry for 25 years. After visiting factories and witnessing the aggregate of decay created in accomplishment clothing, I acquainted a albatross to somehow action a band-aid to this growing problem," says Gary Peck, Co-Founder. "Looptworks (http://www.looptworks.com/about.html) 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."
Buying amoebic is beneath adverse than accepted cotton; however, it is still a huge tax on the world's bound resources. For example, 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. Looptworks offers a low appulse advantage for its barter by application what already exists. They achievement humans will alpha cerebration about how to repurpose absolute assets instead of creating new ones.
Unlike acceptable accoutrement manufacturers that present huge melancholia collections, Looptworks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXQxEnvSbh8) offers fresh, limited-edition collectibles. So instead of abacus to the amount of bags of ashen fabric, Looptworks will in actuality amount its articles based on the abundance of abstracts that are begin for anniversary item.
"These numbers allege for themselves," adds Scott Hamlin, Co-Founder. "We charge to change the way we anticipate about consuming. In the process, we achievement to affect a bearing to abate their appulse on the planet."
About Looptworks:
Launching in August 2009, Looptworks is a ground-breaking business that repurposes 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 loopt-in, annals at (http://www.looptworks.com) or subscribe to the company's Twitter augment at (http://twitter.com/LooptWorks.)
Press Contact:
Julie Atherton
JAM Media Collective
2443 Fillmore St
No. 184 San Francisco, CA 94115
415-839-7546
julie@jamcollective.net http://www.looptworks.com
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