Usedfully

The Climate Crisis is too big to be solved by one brand or one organisation alone, so we teamed up with the team at Usedfully and their wider partner network to help facilitate a textile reuse programme specific for our wider industry ensuring a more sustainable tomorrow for the community and environment.

Through this strategic partnership, OneFrame Architectural Fabric Tension Systems aims to facilitate long-term sustainability and profitability while enabling the transition to a low-carbon future for our industry and Aotearoa.

www.textilereuse.com

We are Usedfully®, a low carbon clothing system where textiles are utilised to their full potential through technology and cutting-edge research – Working together with industry partners, we are driving the reuse of unwanted clothing and textiles, preventing them from going to landfill, and instead creating a circular system that fully utilises this untapped resource. 

After a decade of individual textile waste diversion and reuse projects we realise that the only way we can achieve our vision is through systems change, so we created Usedfully®

The Programme is for any business or organisation that produces, supplies, or uses clothing or textiles that wants to make a difference.

The Usedfully® system is recognised through the following streams:

• Textile reuse program - Our membership-based programme of change-making organisations who pay an annual fee that fund our solution building and continued research to scale and implement our system.
• The formary - expert advice and case-specific assistance through our award-winning consultancy.
• Textile product stewardship - Underpinning our system is Product Stewardship. We are co-designing the first Textile Product Stewardship Scheme in Aotearoa.
• Usedfully® marketplace - Our digital platform where organisations and individuals can purchase used textiles and track their environmental impacts from point of sale through to the end of use

Where our textiles end up is as important as where they come from. To stay within the ecological boundaries of the planet there must be a radical reduction in the draw on virgin resources, a reduction in carbon generated by the textile/clothing industry, and elimination of waste and the extraction of considerably higher value from textile/clothing.

Progressive businesses and organisations in the Usedfully® Textile Reuse Programme are transitioning the world’s textile/clothing system to a circular model. Extracting much greater value from our textiles/clothing, reducing environmental impacts and saving resources.

• Saving resources - By reusing discarded textiles/clothing we reduce the need to draw on new resources. Assisting us to stay within the bio-physical limits of the earth.
• Building solutions - Research and development of new solutions for used textiles/clothing enables the capture of much greater value from clothing resources
• Reducing waste - Looping current waste textile resources back into production can create more economic value without environmental degradation.
• Impact reporting - The Textile Reuse Programme provides metrics on reuse, assisting partners to map their environmental impacts and improve performance.