Hong Kong Sustainable Activewear Manufacturer Transforms Plastic Waste Into Leggings

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Launched in October, Good Times is a new activewear brand recycling post-consumer plastic-type waste in leggings, tops and sporting activities bras. Located in Hong Kong and partnering with sustainable suppliers in Taiwan and ethical suppliers in Indonesia, the sportswear brand is a sportswear label dedicated to championing a circular economy. 

Founded by Libby Perry, a former model manager at Lane Crawford, Great Days is seeking to lead Hong Kong’s sustainable athletic apparel sector using its new brand. Officially launched last month, its initial mindful activewear collection is made up of 30 mix-and-match bits, from leggings to vest tops and activities bras, coming in many different trendy tones and bearing contemporary minimalist designs that are meant to last.

The number of fabrics used to craft Great Days’ garments all contain recycled plastics which may have been recovered, such as for example abandoned ghost fishing nets in the ocean to single-use plastic containers. The recycled polyester called TopGreen within their leggings and bra tops, for instance, happen to be sourced from FENC in Taiwan, a supplier that repurposes and repolymerises 100% traceable post-consumer plastic into innovative yarns who is certified with the Global Recycling Regular, SCS Global, Oeko-Tex Standard 100 and the Taiwanese EPA Green Tag.

A small portion of nylon found in the collection comes from Italian distributor Carvico JL, who turns industrial waste, ghost nets and carpets into 100% regenerated yarns. Authorized organic cotton may be the only virgin material found in the collection for the vest tops, and so are blended with recycled polyester made from plastic waste. 

“Our target is to divert plastic which would otherwise have ended up in landfill or in oceans, repurposing it right into a high-quality merchandise with a long life,” the business says.

To help expand their mission to combat plastic pollution, the business avoids the utilization of disposable plastic packaging completely by sending all their orders in non-toxic compostable mailers created from cassava starch sourced from Bali, which are certified by The Australian Standard for their capability to decompose within 3 to six months in a real estate compost, and in less than 2 years in the landfill. Operating just as an web store that ships across Southeast Asia and Europe, every delivery is also packaged in a reusable tote tote made from repurposed rice sacks.

When asked simply by Green Queen about the microplastic footprint that the recycled man made fibres could have, founder Perry told us they know about the issue and working to solve it as most effective they can: “This is really a predicament we are very conscious of. We will be stocking the Guppyfriend washing bags on our site which certainly are a scientifically proven alternative for filtering microplastics during washing.” 

“We include information on all goods pages of how to reduce the impact of fibre shedding through better washing practices  - lower temperature, lower spin, usage of a filter washing tote,” she added. 

Beyond making sure their components are sustainable, the company works with Balinese manufacturers that are specialised found in eco-friendly procedures and uphold ethical benchmarks. Leftover textile offcuts in the production method are donated to charity teams in your community to remake them into different saleable items, such as for example BIWA, an association focused on underprivileged communities in Bali. Good Days adds that personnel in the factory are paid out reasonable wages, overtime salaries and no cost medical insurance in a safe working environment. 

Furthermore, as a 1% for the Planet member company, Great Days donates at least one percent of their gross total annual income to approved charities focusing on environmental projects all over the world, and that this commitment remains whether the company is profitable or not - a pledge which will without doubt appeal to Asia’s rising group of conscious consumers. 

“My goal in launching Good Days is to equip you with beautiful, functional, high performance activewear that will inspire you to go,” said Perry in a recently available social media post. “Activewear that's produced ethically, using fabrics designed to use minimal new resources, rather adding to a circular economy by firmly taking problematic waste products such as plastic containers and transforming them into something different.”
Source: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk

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