One of FARM Rio's main pillars - circularity - is part of our commitment to create and produce responsible, sustainable, and ethical fashion. Our vision of circularity is intertwined with the following aspects: circular product design and processes, regeneration of nature, and use of natural resources.
We have been enhancing our processes and partnerships to ensure circularity since 2016, and we invest in lines that reuse surplus fabric in stock, selling products with less ecological impact and implementing reverse logistics in our products. We also advocate upcycling for defective items, establishing partnerships that give the clothes a new life and extend their life cycle with our partners in Brasil: Rede Asta, Oficina Muda, Re-roupa, and Enjoei.
OUR GOAL
Our goal is to be a zero-landfill waste company by 2030, and also consolidate and expand Circular Economy programs by 2025, increasing the amount of items with their life cycle extended by 20%.
RESULTS OF THE PARTNERSHIPS
Oficina Muda
WHAT IT IS: a multi-brand upcycling fashion company that recycles minor-defected items through repairs and adjustments to put them on sale again. Currently, all our surplus is resold to Oficina Muda to be overhauled.
BEGINNING OF THE PARTNERSHIP: 2017
UPDATED RESULTS (2023 report): 28.43 tons of clothes
Banco de Tecidos
WHAT IT IS: an initiative that implements the circulation of reused fabric, production scraps from weaving shops, clothing factories, and ateliers, to place these materials back into the market through a mixed system of exchange and sale.
UPDATED RESULTS (2022 REPORT): 18 tons of fabrics
Rede ASTA
WHAT IT IS: a social business that transforms leftover fabric into raw material for artisans to which FARM Rio donates 100% of textile edge-cut waste. This enterprise offers training for craftswomen who want to become entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro.
BEGINNING OF THE PARTNERSHIP: 2018
UPDATED RESULTS (2023 report): 157,347 new products were made from the donation of raw materials
Enjoei
WHAT IT IS: a platform for second-hand goods that encourages the purchase and use of returned products to promote reverse logistics in the Brazilian fashion market. Since 2018, we have collected over 15,000 articles.
BEGINNING OF THE PARTNERSHIP: 2018
UPDATED RESULTS (2023 report): 1,062 pieces of clothes collected
Women of the Global South
WHAT IT IS: women in situations of refuge and social vulnerability receive training in sewing (in an atelier), using the fabrics they receive as donations.
BEGINNING OF THE PARTNERSHIP: 2018 (SOMA) and 2020 (FARM Rio)
UPDATED RESULTS (2023 report): 5.98 tons of fabric donated to the to produce garments