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Sustainability

The Dream Program supports local and global macro and micro-economies in underdeveloped communities by collecting plastic bottles and raw materials to support entrepreneurs and prevent waste from reaching landfills and oceans.

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Each bottle and raw material is sorted, cleaned, shredded, turned into yarn, then knitted or woven into fabric to ultimately become apparel, footwear, and accessories for brands around the world.

Our program sets up recycling ecosystems in the US and in countries that lack sufficient disposal infrastructure and have high rates of pollution and poverty. Our goal is to partner with locals to set up collection locations and employ citizens of those regions to manage these ecosystems. After being collected the plastic and waste is recycled and processed into new raw materials. By doing this we are creating a sustainable circular economy. Our goal is to give plastic and waste a new life.

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The Dream Program supports local and global macro and micro-economies in underdeveloped communities by collecting plastic bottles and raw materials to support entrepreneurs and prevent waste from reaching landfills and oceans.

circular economy

Circular Economy

in contrast, aims to radically limit the extraction of raw materials and the production of waste. It does this by recovering and reusing as many of the products and materials as possible, in a systematic way, over and over again. The Circular Economy is a “make/remake – use/reuse” economy.

Sustainability

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people.

Revolutionize Recycling Ecosystems

  1.  Acquisition (collect the right volumes of products or materials of the right quality, for a reasonable price).
  2. Reprocessing (refurbish, remanufacture or recycle used products or materials, for a reasonable price).
  3. Remarketing (identify markets that want to buy the reprocessed products or materials).

Ocean & Plastic Waste Program

Our program sets up recycling ecosystems in the US and in countries that lack sufficient disposal infrastructure and have high rates of pollution and poverty. Our goal is to partner with locals to set up collection locations and employ citizens of those regions to manage these ecosystems. After being collected the plastic and waste is recycled and processed into new raw materials.

Raw Materials Program

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people.

The Challenge

8 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans annually.

The problem affects every known ecosystem and all levels of the food chain. If not stopped, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050.

In addition an estimated 92 million tons of waste is created annually from the fashion industry. With innovative new thinking and new technologies, we have the environmental advantages made from plastic, discarded clothing and textiles to create untapped natural resources by diverting deadstock and waste into circular versions of existing and new products.

The solutions lie in a circular economy. System change towards a circular economy offers the best economic, environmental, and climate outcomes.

We know that sustainability is a multi-dimensional challenge. That’s why every decision we make during the development of our materials is driven with this in mind. We focus on taking urgent climate action, maintaining a balanced ecosystem, and promoting circularity and a responsible end-of-life.

The Statistics

Plastic & raw materials waste facts:

The textile industry is one of the top 3 water wasting industry, discharging over 2.5 billion tons of wastewater every year in China alone.

5000

gallons of water to manufacture just a T-shirt and jeans

20

tons of recycleable / re-usable textiles landfilled or incinerated every year (EU+US alone)

70

of clothing and other textiles thrown away by the avg. US citizen annually

of the world’s plastic that is  NOT recycled

% of fabric intended for clothing ends up on the cutting room floor

2

of global GDP is attributed to the $3 trillion apparel market, with 75% of the market concentrated in the EU, US, China & Japan.

”"15.1 million tons of textile waste was generated in 2013, of which 12.8 million tons were discarded."

EPA Reports (via NPR)
The Solution

A Circular Economy

is an alternative to a traditional linear economy which follows the principle of make, use, dispose. Instead it focuses on a cradle to cradle concept, keeping resources in use for as long as possible, extracting the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life.

The circular economy considers every stage of a product’s journey –before and after it reaches the customer. This approach is not only vital to stop plastic pollution, but offers the strongest economic, social, and climate benefits.

Turning products into symbols of change

Our approach to ending local and global issues in regard to plastic and raw material waste pollution can be solved through collaboration in a multidisciplinary way. Allowing products to be a symbol of change with environmentalists, consumers and major brands.

The key to ending plastic and raw material pollution is not in recycling, but in the redesign and replacement of harmful materials, methods and thinking.

With the collaboration of our network we will create a range of premium materials for all industries to include sports, fashion and luxury industries.