Founded in 2016 by its CEO Jessica Schreiber, Fabscrap was created to meet the city's commercial textile recycling needs. The label had reached out in 2016 after seeing the amount of textile waste they accrued over time. "Season after season we're receiving (samples) and it just really piles up and piles up ... we were just really overwhelmed with the textile waste." While Fabscrap does help reduce the amount of textile waste at the design process level, there is still more work to be done. "I hope in 5 years we're starting to address the source of the waste not just the waste itself," Schreiber says.

Source: The Nation September 17, 2020 06:45 UTC