Revivify High-Rise Textile Recycling

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Swing by our booth and see how quick it is to request a textile bin for your building — it only takes 30 seconds ⏱️♻️

Let’s make sustainable living simple, one building at a time! 💚

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Textile waste, which comes from the manufacture of clothes and their eventual disposal into landfills, is one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world. usually lands in Vancouver, where Long's team uses it to create new garments.
The fabric is recycled from discarded clothing from landfills and rag houses — warehouses full of second-hand clothing — in southeast Asia and Africa that eventually lands in Vancouver, where Long's team uses it to create new garments.
Textile waste, which comes from the manufacture of clothes and their eventual disposal into landfills, is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world.
Source: CBC.ca
Help us help your building residents to conveniently join the growing list of buildings that are no longer discarding usable textiles and clothing into the garbage.

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Are you looking for a way to reduce your impact on the environment?

Even as much as one t-shirt per month for every family can help Vancouver BC move towards a more sustainable and circular textile value chain. Free bin and services are provided for multi-family buildings by Revivify

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Free textile recycling bins for multi-family buildings! Request a bin on our website, link in bio!

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Sustainable Future – How to Reach?

The time to act is now. To make the shift and achieve true sustainability requires skill, passion and innovation on a worldwide scale. Governments, industry, NGOs, corporations and financers all need to work together to enact positive change. How can all factions collaborate to create a collective vision for a sustainable future?

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Textile Waste & Its Impact on the Environment

A factor that most people don’t ever consider is the impact our clothes have on the environment. Textile production requires significant amounts of chemicals, water, energy, and other natural resources. According to the World Resources Institute, it takes 2,700 liters of water to make one cotton shirt. And when consumers throw away clothing in the garbage, not only does it waste money and resources, but it can take 200+ years for the materials to decompose in a landfill. During the decomposition process, textiles generate greenhouse methane gas and leach toxic chemicals and dyes into the groundwater and our soil.
Source: EPRS (2019, 2020)

How to Be a Part of the Solution?

Revivify offers indoor textile recycling bins to multi-family building all over Metro Vancouver. This service is absolutely free and only in 3 simple steps:
1. Have your council member, strata manager, or rental company contact us to order an indoor bin
2. We will send them a contract to sign and then schedule the bin delivery and picking up the fob/key for access
3. Pick up will be scheduled once a week and adjusted according to the volume

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Five Important Reasons to REVIVIFY!

It Helps Those in Need
When recycling your clothes through our bins you support the Big Brothers & Sisters of Vancouver charity while contributing to a sustainable future.

It’s Simple & Free
Revivify BC offers multi-family buildings bins and services for free just ask your strata council or your management company to contact us.

It Reduces Costly Consumerism
By having our bins your building can now recycle clothing and fabrics as easy as recycling cans and newspapers. As Metro Vancouver implements its green initiatives, you can get ahead of the curve by joining the lighter living movement.

Communicate Your Commitment
Use your annual diversion report to proudly communicate your commitment to sustainability, the amount of textiles your building has kept out of the landfill, and the avoided environmental damage.

Help the Nature Grow
Landfills are harmful in a variety of ways, impacting not only our environment but also municipal budgets. 65,000 tons of textiles with 26,880 tons coming from multi-family buildings ended up in the Metro Vancouver landfill in 2020. That number is drastically rising annually, be a part of the solution with REVIVIFY!

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Textile and Fashion Waste Statistics

Clothing waste statistics take us closer to understanding how our fashion habits and the fashion manufacturing processes affect us and the environment. Here are a few notable statistics.
1. The fashion industry accounts for 2% of the world’s GDP
2. The average consumer buys 60% more clothing items every year
3. Americans spend almost $2,000 on fashion items.
4. The US produces over 17 million tons of textile waste every year
5. 1 in 2 people throw their clothes in the trash
6. Clothes take decades to degrade
7. If you were to wear your clothes longer, you’d reduce clothing waste by up to 10%
8. Consumers recycle clothes less than manufacturers
9. The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions
10. It takes 5,000 gallons of water to produce just one T-shirt and a pair of jeans
11. Textile industry pays peanuts despite being a multi-dollar industry
All stats from www.ecofriendlyhabits.com

How to Reduce Your Closet's Impact on the Planet

In 2020, more than 140 million pounds of textiles ended up in the Metro Vancouver landfill, which was a 143% increase from the 2013 figure. Metro Vancouver multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) collectively contributed to more than 40% of this total, which amounted to about 60 million lbs. of textiles in 2020. That is the equivalent of 160,000 lbs. discarded every day by MURBs, the majority being household textiles, of which, only 2% is actual waste. The rest can be either reused, recycled into new fabric and garments, or repurposed. Here we have tried to mention some simple ways to address and resolve this issue:
1. Give us a call or request a bin on our website!
2. Buy less and keep clothes longer
3. Buy second-hand
4. Invest in sustainable brands if you can
5. Stay away from big oil's fabrics
6. Repurpose old clothes

Join Google, Unilever, Subaru in The Zero Waste Movement

By: HARUN ASAD - www.environmentalleader.com

Google, Unilever, Subaru and many other companies are leading the way on zero waste. At Google, many of the company’s key data centers have achieved zero waste and nearly all of the waste from their global data centers is being diverted from landfill. Unilever, with hundreds of factories around the world, achieved its Zero-Waste-to-Landfill goal in 2016, six years ahead of schedule. For the past 15 years, nothing has gone to waste at Subaru. Their manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Indiana, and four plants in Japan, have been zero waste to landfill since 2005.
Zero Waste Principles:
• Rethink
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle/Compost
• Material Recovery
• Residual Management
Contact us to start the process from your home! Re-vivify provides textile recycling solutions for multi-family buildings in Metro Vancouver.

Have you ever thought about what happens to your textile after recycling?
I always thought clothes, along with all the textiles that we throw out to recycle in a year, are basically a waste to be recycled. However, if we set our minds to a new way of thinking, we will see that textile waste is the world’s existing natural resource! Your favorite t-shirt from college, those jeans you wore until they fell apart, live on.
If you are interested in the industry, take a look at Evrnu® website. Evrnu® is a textile innovations company creating a circular ecosystem. Evrnu® technologies are used to create engineered fibers with extraordinary performance and environmental advantages, made from discarded clothing.
www.evrnu.com
Please don’t forget that this opportunity starts with recycling your textile! Contact us for free textile recycling services.
Be a part of the solution! REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE REVIVIFY