Hanesbrands Inc | Re-Use Through Design Rita Bardon, Shayan Barlas, and Min Kim
Our planet is dying. Twenty-one billion pounds of textile waste ends up in landfills each year in the U.S. alone, and HanesBrands products are in ninety percent of U.S. households. Our team partnered with HanesBrands, Inc. on a sustainability project to develop a way to reduce pre-industrial waste from being incinerated or thrown into landfills. We benchmarked recycling processes in other industries and recognised the most beneficial thing for Hanes would be to create a closed loop recycling process, where pre-industrial waste can be re-used in Hanes’ products. 28
