As Gigi Mathews, Enviu India’s Country Director, has joined ANDE India’s Steering Committee, we ask her about the collaboration with ANDE, her experiences as a woman entrepreneur, and the learnings from the Reweave program.
In a conversation with venture builders and waste workers, Namrata Iyer, Programs and Communications at Enviu India, explores if our Reweave program’s ideologies are really converting into impact, including ensuring respect and professional growth for the waste workers. Education builds wealth, and puts healthcare, respect, and opportunities within reach. But accessing them demands money and fair …
How a top-down approach sustains impact for waste workers Read More »
During all our expert interviews together with our partner CAIF, we learned that the system as a whole needs to change. We are living in a disposable consumer culture that simply won’t last any longer – All players from consumers, businesses and governments will have to collaborate to change our linear system to a circular …
Chapter 5: What are the problems in the bigger system? Read More »
The journey of post-consumer waste is a bit of a black box. Where does it all end up? The sad matter is that less than 1% of clothing gets recycled back into new clothing. The majority ends up in the automotive industry as cleaning wipes or fillers, some goes to the cement industry and much …
While in Europe we work with sophisticated technology to automate sorting, in India sorting is often done manually and it is quite a fragmented process. To better understand sorting practices we visited various facilities in Mumbai and Bangalore and spoke to their employees. Here are some of our key findings: Informal sorting: It may come …
We now know what the waste looks like, but what happens next? We were keen to learn where post-consumer textile waste ended up. To research this we spoke with different actors within the chain: Consumers, dry waste collectors, at home collectors and NGO’s. Here’s what we a learnt during these interviews: India has no formal …
To kick things off we wanted to better understand what textile waste in India looked like. What is the quality? What volumes are we talking about? We spoke to various Indian waste collectors and recyclers to get a better picture of the current situation. Here are our key learnings: Clothes are handed down: Donations and …
Chapter 1: What does post-consumer textile waste in India look like? Read More »
India is one of the largest producers, employers and consumers of fashion. But perhaps more surprisingly, India is also the second largest importer of post-consumer waste (yes: they import old clothing for recycling) this combined with a growing consumer market creating textile waste creates a“double burden” in the country. Despite this there is no formal …
30 lessons learned about post-consumer textile waste in India Read More »
The current apparel value chain is mostly linear—take, make, dispose—resulting in huge amounts of waste and the destruction of value. There is an urgent need to transition from linear production to a fully circular and inclusive fashion economy, in which renewable resources are used, the true value of materials is captured, and people throughout the …
An Interview with Marieke Lenders – Program Lead Reweave Marieke, can you introduce the Reweave program? Reweave is a business-intervention program run by Enviu with a goal to create a fair and circular apparel value chain in India. We do this as entrepreneurs, by building disruptive social and sustainable ventures that drive the market towards …
Introducing Reweave: Why change is needed and what we’re doing about it Read More »
