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General Pants calls on industry to make 1000 pieces of reclaimed denim new again By Imogen Bailey | 7 May 2021 General Pants Co. has partnered with Sydney-based social enterprise Circular Centre to launch Australia's largest denim redesign project and competition.  The competition encourages designers and fashion students to use reclaimed denim to create ready-to-wear designs for their chance to be showcased in one of General Pants Co. flagship stores. Participants will have access to over 1,000 pieces of reclaimed denim donated for the competition.  The denim stems from a 2019 General Pan...

16 March 2021 If you’ve got damaged clothes, textiles or shoes that aren’t quite right for donating, you might like to drop them off at one of the services below. We can recycle cardboard, glass, tyres and e-waste, yet recycling our clothes and shoes isn’t so clear-cut. Why? Like fixing an old car, you’ve got to take a used t-shirt apart before you can put it back together. Most clothes and shoes made today contain blended fibres, and these have to be extracted from one another before being recycled. It’s a complex and expensive break-up – one that mos...