We’re always on the hunt for timeless wardrobe staples, the kind of comfy attire you can grab when you’re off to the shops or heading down to your local coffee joint. Even better when the brands behind your favourite basics are doing good by people and the planet. If you're keen to fill your wardrobe with more sustainable threads too, let us introduce you to The Common Good Company—an Aussie brand making ethical clothes with 100% recycled materials.
The Melbourne based company has just dropped a range of lightweight unisex hoodies and crew neck sweaters, all made from single-use plastic and recycled textiles, which are perfect for chucking on on those cooler nights. Available in black or grey, they’re a boxy, oversized fit, described as an ode to 90s skateparks, and we’re kinda obsessed with how casually cool they are.
You’ll also want to stock up on some of their tees for summer while you’re there—The Common Good Company have some really cool ethical designs to pick from that’ll slot right into your new season wardrobe.
You might be wondering, what exactly do they mean by 100% recycled material? Well, The Common Good Company are pretty clever cookies... They've utilised pre-consumer cotton—the cotton that’s leftover in the textile industry and normally thrown away—and turned single-use plastics into polyester to create the recycled cotton and polyester mix their comfy clothes are made from. By using this material, shirts by The Common Good Company save around 2700 litres of water, 170gms of textile waste and 4.5 plastic water bottles from landfill. Yep, told you they were sustainable.
And it gets even better. The Common Good Company has also partnered with SeaTrees, an organisation trying to reduce climate change, and for every t-shirt or sweat sold, one mangrove gets planted.
Grab some of their feel-good threads for yourself here.
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