Turn Those Startup Tees Into Something Useful With Project Repat

Today’s Killer Startup: Project Repat

 

 

Elevator Pitch

Project Repat creates quilts out of your old t-shirts, using US workers that earn a fair wage.

 

Why We Love It

I’m into Project Repat because 1. it involves sewing, 2. it involves nostalgia (I am a millennial, after all), 3. it involves recycling and, 4. it creates fair-wage jobs in the States.

 

Sorry, sorry, let me back up; I’m getting ahead of myself here. Project Repat takes your old t-shirts and turns them into high-quality quilts, backed by polar fleece. Oh, and they’re sewn in two factories right in the US, providing well-paying jobs to American workers. (What a concept, right?)

 

The founders of Project Repat came up with the idea when they noticed a guy wearing a “I Danced My Ass Off at Josh’s Bar Mitzvah” t-shirt in Kenya. They realized how many awesome t-shirts were being shipped out of the States and thought, “Hmm… We could do something with those.” After trying out a few different products, they listened to the market and Project Repat was born.

 

Today, the quilts are made in two factories, one in Fall River, MA, and one in Morgantown, NC, the former of which is keeping a textile tradition alive in a traditional textile town and the latter which works on a collaborative working model. Both factories provide a fair and living wage to their workers, and each quilt reduces a portion of the 65 pounds of clothing that each American throws out on average, every year.

 

So if you’re looking for an awesome, personal gift — or you just can’t throw away all of those commemorative (or startup) t-shirts in your closet, but you’re sure as shit not ever going to wear them again — and you care about the environment, and you care about American jobs, then you can’t do much better than Project Repat.

 

Tweetable

Yo, #startup founder! You know you have too many startup t-shirts. Turn them into something AWESOME w/ @ProjectRepat

 

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