Today we’re very excited to announce our next big step towards expanding our innovative circular textile ecosystem by launching our first fully owned and operated U.S. facility in Ohio. This strategic location enhances our capacity to meet the increasing demand for scalable advanced textile sortation services, expanding our innovative circular textile ecosystem that serves as North America’s most comprehensive textile sustainability and circularity hub. “By expanding our footprint, we’re making the investments necessary to move the industry towards a more responsible future. Not only will this help us address our current challenges with pre- and post-consumer waste, but we’re also future proofing so that once regulations pass and our clients are faced with new operational realities, we’re ready to support them in lockstep to create the most impactful systems of sustainability and circularity possible.” – Amelia Eleiter This new 32,000-square-foot facility has been specifically designed to support brands in integrating sustainability and circularity models that align with impending regulatory compliance using future-proof sortation technology and cutting-edge machinery. Read our press release to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gMYXDv92
Debrand
Environmental Services
Surrey, British Columbia 3,525 followers
Find the Worth in Waste: Next-Life Logistics for Apparel and Footwear Brands.
About us
Debrand is the leading provider of next-life logistics for apparel and footwear brands. Our proprietary allocation engine accurately identifies, sorts, grades, and allocates your returned, damaged, and overproduced goods. We ensure that textile waste is circulated to its highest value through our comprehensive network of next-life channels, such as resale, donation, repair, recycling, and responsible disposal. The world’s top apparel brands trust Debrand to develop a next-life logistics strategy that unlocks new revenue streams and incorporates circular principles to meet your sustainability goals and improve the well-being of both people and the planet. Based in British Columbia, Canada, Debrand's mission is to propel the textile industry’s sustainable future by collaborating with companies to build systems of sustainability that optimize the planet's finite resources. To learn more about Debrand, visit www.debrand.ca. Customers include lululemon athletica, Everlane, Aritzia, Canada Goose, Groupe Dynamite, Fedex, Air Canada, L Brands, Loblaws and many more.
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http://www.debrand.ca
External link for Debrand
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- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Surrey, British Columbia
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- responsible disposal, secure textile recycling, best practice consulting, end of life material management, textile recycling, secure destruction, duty drawback solutions, apparel sustainability, quality assurance, logistics, and circularity consulting
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18998 32 Ave
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Surrey, British Columbia V3Z 1A7, CA
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"The U.S. is one of the top consumers of textiles in the world, driven partly by fast-fashion demand for mass produced, low-cost clothing, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The GAO, which recently published a report highlighting opportunities and challenges for improving textile recycling programs in the U.S., pointed out that current mechanical and chemical recycling technologies 'are limited by a lack of supporting infrastructure,' and that more innovations are needed to make the process more effective and accessible." Developing solutions in North America that can tackle textile waste at scale requires a large shift in infrastructure. Our new Ohio facility is a significant step towards expanding our innovative circular textile ecosystem and will allow for more opportunities to build circular models alongside apparel brands and solution partners. In the last week, we've received a huge wave of positivity from our network about this big news, and our team is so grateful for it. We're excited to see where this milestone takes us. Thank you to Waste Dive and Megan Quinn for this wonderful feature. Read more about our new Ohio facility below. Fashion Dive Industry Dive Amelia Eleiter Wes B.
Debrand has expanded into the U.S. by debuting its first textile sorting facility in Columbus, Ohio, a move meant to strengthen textile sorting and recycling infrastructure in North America to divert more clothing from the landfill https://lnkd.in/e9rwwDGc
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Whether you describe fashion as your greatest source of self-expression or your closet consists of a few key staples, we all wear clothes and are all impacted by the legislation surrounding the fashion industry. Tune into this week's Untangling Circularity Podcast as Debrand's VP of Sustainability & Solutions, Lina G Londono, and Everlane's Director of Sustainability, Katina Boutis, discuss these impending fashion legislation trends and themes. Thank you to Cynthia Power & Laura Novich for creating such a wonderful platform for these conversations. The Untangling Circularity Podcast can be listened to now wherever you get your podcasts.
📢 New episode! 📢 In this week's episode of The Untangling Circularity Podcast, The Circular Journey of What We Wear, we talk all about circular fashion legislation with Lina G Londono of Debrand and Katina Boutis of Everlane. You can find The Untangling Circularity Podcast wherever you consume your podcasts (including Apple Podcasts here: https://lnkd.in/e72mXjJP). And please subscribe to our newsletter to get updates and further insights and analyses from yours truly, Cynthia Power and Laura Novich, here: https://lnkd.in/eqD5p3GE #reuse #repair #recycle #textilelegislation #NYFashionAct #textiles #fashion #circularity #circularfashion
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Debrand Expands U.S. Operations with New Textile Recycling Facility in Columbus, Ohio | Amelia Eleiter Wes B. #techcouver
Debrand Expands U.S. Operations with New Textile Recycling Facility in Columbus, Ohio - Techcouver.com
https://techcouver.com
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We are honoured to be recognized as a finalist by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade for our contributions to environmental sustainability. Thank you to our amazing team and network for making it all possible!
The Scale-up Centre for SMEs at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is pleased to present the 4th Annual Business Distinction Awards. These awards recognize businesses that have gone above and beyond to set themselves apart in the Greater Vancouver region. Read the full news release here: https://lnkd.in/gn26NPmE Join us on November 5, 2024, for the annual Business Distinction Awards, when the winners in six categories will be announced. Meet the finalists of the 2024 Business Distinction Awards! Business Growth: Operating 3 Years This award recognizes excellence in entrepreneurship by highlighting a business innovation, expansion, or diversification achieved by an organization established before 2021. - Falkirk Consultants - Huha - Monos - Oxygen8 Solutions Inc. Employer of the Year This award recognizes a business that has invested in leading practices in the last 12-18 months that contribute to a positive workplace culture. - Belmar Consulting Group - Conwest Developments - InterVISTAS Consulting Inc. - Talk Shop Environmental Impact This award recognizes a business's positive contributions to environmental sustainability and conservation efforts through a recently introduced or reimagined product or service. - Cadillac Fairview - Conifer Homewares - Debrand - Hypercharge Networks Non-profit of the Year This award recognizes a non-profit organization that has made extraordinary social, cultural or economic impact on the community in the last 12-18 months. - BC Centre for Ability - BC Parks Foundation - Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland - Canuck Place Children's Hospice - Life Sciences BC Outstanding New Venture The New Venture Award recognizes excellence in entrepreneurship by highlighting an outstanding new business launched within the last three years. - Coastal Nations Fisheries - Mosa Technologies Inc. - Tuktu Care Inc. Unique-to-Vancouver This new award celebrates and showcases the outstanding contributions of businesses that enrich the region's cultural fabric, promote diversity and inclusion, and contribute to its overall vibrancy and livability. - And-Co Offices - Kahani Pictures - Nch’ḵaỷ Development Corporation A big shoutout to our sponsors for making this celebration of Greater Vancouver businesses possible: Presenting Sponsors: TELUS and Amazon Scale-up Centre for SMEs Signature Partner: MNP Scale-up Centre for SMEs Supporting Sponsors: BC Securities Commission, BDC and Hammerco Lawyers LLP Scale-up Centre for SMEs Community Sponsor: Gowling WLG
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Kickstart your week by getting to know a little more about Wes B., Debrand's Co-Founder and SVP of Strategic Initiatives. Swipe through to read about what drives him to continue innovating in the textile sustainability and circularity space, his hobbies, and what gives him doses of inspiration ✨ . #Debranders #GetToKnow
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Debrand's origin story begins 16 years ago on a beach in Southern Sri Lanka when our co-founders, Amelia Eleiter and Wes Baker, were surfing along the pristine shores and witnessed the disheartening reality of branded waste floating in the ocean water. In that moment, their motivation was fuelled to partner with brands and help them become more responsible with their product waste. And from this, Debrand was born. In anticipation of World Ocean Day tomorrow, we're taking a moment to remind ourselves of how it all started. We're celebrating the many wins we've had since 2008, while acknowledging that there's still a long road ahead to solving the world's waste problem. Here's to our continued purpose-driven work and the good company we're doing it with to drive transformative collaboration. Learn more about what you can do for World Ocean Day (and every day after it) at worldoceanday.org. #WorldOceanDay #FindTheWorthInWaste
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This Thursday, our very own Lina G Londono will be joining #NYTechWeek's panel on the future of fashion and how technology can shape the industry's circular economy. With such an impressive group of panelists, we can't wait to hear the conversation unfold on the challenges, opportunities, and learnings of the work being done to solve the world's textile waste problem. Join the discussion at 8pm ET! You can register for the event here: https://lnkd.in/gyZeifXX #NextLife #TechWeek #CircularFashion
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Thank you to everyone who visited our #Circularity24 booth! Swipe through to see what our team got up to at the conference. Stay tuned to find out how many lanyards we collected for reuse at next year's event and how many will go to recycling with Eastman. Learn more about our circular lanyard project here: https://lnkd.in/geZt9cmX
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Thank you for a great #Circularity24, GreenBiz Group! Don't forget to drop your recyclable conference lanyards in the Eastman and Debrand collection boxes before you leave! After the conference, Debrand will work their magic, collecting, cleaning, and repairing these lanyards for potential reuse. Anything beyond repair will be sent to Eastman and recycled via our molecular recycling technologies, keeping materials in use and out of landfills.
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