Too dirty, too mixed, too tangled to recycle. Headed for a landfill. So was the chip packet beside it.
At 120°C, in Pune, by the people who once lived off this very waste.
This is the world's first bracelet made from textile waste no one even wants to recycle. It's a testament to the little things we can do today to solve the world's biggest problems tomorrow.
The cord was soiled, mixed textile scrap - too dirty and tangled for any recycler to take. So we invented a way to spin it into the world's first virgin-grade polyester yarn made from this kind of waste.
The charm was a used chip packet, the kind headed for a landfill or an incinerator. We moulded it into durable plastic and gave it a second life as the piece that holds the whole thing together.
The Without Band was made by waste pickers who used to live off this waste, but now have the skills to transform it.
Yarn spun from soiled, mixed textile waste that no one else will recycle. The dirtier and more tangled the scrap, the more we like it.
◎ Tap to focusThe signature parallelogram, moulded from VerdiFLX - our engineered material made from used chip packets the world calls unrecyclable.
◎ Tap to focusEvery bracelet is made by formalised waste-workers - on contracts, earning more, with dignity. The people who once sorted this waste for survival now transform it.
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The Without Band - a world first on your wrist, and a conversation everywhere you go. Show people what "impossible" waste can become.
