We’re Committed to Provably Sustainable Production Practices
Everywhere is dedicated to providing top-quality recycled shirts and apparel from reclaimed cotton textile waste to our customers and brand partners.
We respect that people prefer a “show, don’t tell” approach to sustainability. Otherwise, claims often sound like greenwashed marketing.
Join our journey into the heart of Textile Exchange, a global nexus of brands, researchers, and experts striving for science-based truth in sustainable clothing and material sourcing.
Sustainable Clothing Stakeholders Unite For Transparency & Truth In Textiles
Holding our clothing in your hand, it’s easy to see the superior softness, durability, and style of our recycled shirts. To create that surface quality, we rigidly adhere to best-in-class standards during the production of each and every piece of recycled clothing before it makes its way into your wardrobe.
In order to contextualize, amplify, and verify the integrity and impact of our innovations in recycled clothing and circular supply chains, we looked to the broader landscape of sustainable clothing brands and organizations. There, we discovered a network dedicated to the same transformative, science-based practices that have shaped our recycled apparel from the beginning.
Textile Exchange is a coalition of sustainable clothing brands, experts, and textile researchers at the forefront of the climate-conscious, ethical fashion movement. We became Textile Exchange members when we started making recycled t shirts in 2019, and we’re excited to share more about our Textile Exchange membership.
Our Textile Exchange membership helps us develop and communicate about our ethical, sustainable supply chain, manufacturing processes, and recycled products.
What is Textile Exchange?
Textile Exchange is a climate action non-profit that helps textile and fashion brands, manufacturers, and farmers accelerate sustainable production practices.
Their focus on how raw materials for apparel are cultivated, extracted, and sourced provides clothing brands and manufacturers with actionable strategies to improve carbon reductions, soil health, water conservation, and ecological biodiversity.
Textile Exchange is facilitating positive change within the fashion industry from the ground up. Let’s take a look at their initiatives, standards, and certifications that directly relate to our recycled cotton t shirts and apparel.
How Everywhere Apparel Recycled Clothing Advances a Large Mission
Textile Exchange adheres strictly to its scope of raw material sourcing, cultivation, and extraction for a good reason. This first step in the four-tier apparel supply chain accounts for 24% of the industry’s carbon footprint, second only to the “material production” tier which contributes roughly 52% (1).
Interventions to drive more sustainable practices and choices at this initial tier has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions not only at the point of origin but also in subsequent stages. As such, Textile Exchange and its members adopted a goal to reduce emissions that come from tier-four processes by 45% by 2030. This is a sufficient reduction to limit global warming to 1.5° well in advance of 2050, the Paris Agreement’s target date.
Textile Exchange’s overarching target for emissions reduction unites and orients the direction of its member organizations under what it calls the Climate+ strategy.
Within this strategy are three pillars of action, including 1) developing and substituting sustainable materials in place of traditional apparel inputs, 2) closing the innovation gap around force multipliers like regenerative agriculture, circular systems and textile-to-textile recycled clothing, and 3) slowing the growth of new material production.
Everywhere recycled shirts and clothes further the TE’s Climate+ three-pronged carbon reduction strategy. Our novel, circular supply chain for cotton textile waste eliminates the need to produce new, resource-intensive agricultural cotton. It instead relies on existing cotton garments, which are shredded and processed with no additional water to create our proprietary recycled cotton fiber system, CirCot™. Our GRS-certified recycled cotton CirCot™ can then be spun and knit into sustainable fabric to create new recycled clothes.
Our Recycled Cotton is Truly Sustainable
We want living proof that our recycled clothing reduces carbon emissions, conserves water, and is sustainably made. As experts in assessing and auditing material sourcing processes for their sustainability, we knew Textile Exchange could help us provide transparency and assurance around the quality of our recycling processes.
Among the numerous certifications it confers to sustainable clothing brands, Textile Exchange’s Global Recycled Standard (GRS) audit is among the most stringent. It’s an exhaustive audit of our recycling processes as they move and transform cotton textiles step-by-step through our circular supply chain. The GRS requires a minimum percentage of recycled cotton fibers contained in recycled clothes and thoroughly investigates chain of custody to ensure the identity of the materials. GRS strictly disallows the use of any harmful chemicals within our production ecosystem, as well as any environmentally or socially harmful practices.
After this strict, third-party audit of the entirety of our recycling processes, Everywhere achieved Global Recycled Standard certification. We can confidently, verifiably, and honestly say that our apparel is made from GRS-certified recycled cotton created within a sustainable recycling system.
These results confirm our alignment with Textile Exchange’s Climate+ strategy and our commitment to customers and partners: to offer the highest cotton quality apparel made from the highest quality recycling processes on the planet today.
Keep Updated with Everywhere
As our relationship with the Textile Exchange evolves – whether developing new cotton fibers for recycled clothes, optimizing circularity, or conserving even more water and energy – you can always keep up to date in the Learn section of our website.
Also, if anything here catches your attention, sparks your imagination, or connects to your project’s goals, we’d love to hear from you. It’s never too early or too late to get in touch about how we can clean the planet today, one recycled t shirt at a time.
Sources
- World Resource Institute. ROADMAP TO NET ZERO: DELIVERING SCIENCE-BASED TARGETS IN THE APPAREL SECTOR.