Loop joined GHD at the Waste and Resource Recovery Conference at Crown Perth 4-5 September 2024, partnering with a shared mission to work towards creating positive solutions to corporate textile waste.

On July 2024, Loop hosted a Lunch and Learn session for GHD’s Green Office Action Team (GOAT) to demonstrate solutions Loop could offer for their redundant workwear. The session outlined Loop’s processes from collecting the uniforms, washing and sorting, ideation of what these items could be transformed into, producing samples and quality checking the samples before progressing to upcycling bulk textiles. The staff had the opportunity to see and hold samples from Loop as well as ask questions, demonstrating ways in which their textiles could be applied.

There is an abundance of benefits of upcycling redundant textiles, which GHD have discovered through partnering with Loop. From cost savings for businesses by reducing the need for new materials, decreasing landfill waste, and reducing a company’s carbon footprint, to creating jobs in the repair and upcycling sectors. By upcycling with Loop, organisations also provide employment and training opportunities for marginalised people in our community who face significant barriers to employment. The upcycled items created are also unique and interesting, some still using the original branding from the uniforms.

Thank you to the GHD team Tessa Maynard Hayley Rolfe Martin Gravett Olesia Martynova Rachel Stuckey Antoinette Krause Caleb Joice for allowing us to share your booth space and for choosing to support Loop. The wheel spinner was a great success with booth passers engaging to answer questions all around the 10 R’s of circularity. Congratulations to our winners who took home some upcycled items with them.

Franco Randazzo Sarah Brown Madelyn Sumner

Madelyn Sumner, September 18, 2024