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About BRiCO
BRiCO realizes an ethical relationship between fashion and people through creative upcycling.
Recycled materials are a great way of incorporating sustainable choices into our daily lives. BRiCO promotes a positive product lifecycle where sustainable products can be incorporated into people’s lives through a platform consisting of high-quality recycled materials, simple design, and a user-friendly interface.
BRiCO’s Vision
Our name BRiCO comes from French word 'Bricolage'. In art or design, 'Bricolage' refers to creation from various available materials.
When you donate your old clothes to BRiCO, you will receive an offer to buy new clothes through the app. This is a vision of BRiCO. We pursue a future of a sustainable fashion industry that redefines garment waste as a ticket to buy new clothes. In the future, we envision a new fashion culture that contributes towards the restoration of Earth's lost environment. BRiCO’s upcycling is the realization of sustainable 'bricolage' in our age.
BRiCO’s Process
BRiCO's upcycled products are manufactured from 100% textile waste. The products including yarns and fabrics are made without the use of any dyes or chemicals, and with very little water.
- Collecting
- Sorting
- Cleaning and
Recovery - Blending
- Spinning
- Yarn
Collecting
BRiCO works with partners around the world to collect used clothing that cannot be sold in the secondhand clothing market. 4,000 to 6,000 tons of clothing are recycled in a year.
Sorting
Trained employees manually separate and sort cotton and wool, acrylic, and other synthetic fiber garments on a long conveyor belt. After being sorted by color, they are ready for the cleaning process.
Cleaning &
Recovery
During the cleaning process, buttons, zips, and trims are removed from the garments before they are broken down into scattered pieces by a machine, recovering the materials to their original fibers.
Blending
The recovered fibres are blended with recycled polyester to increase their strength during the spinning process.
Spinning
Finally, the blended fibers are spun to produce yarn suitable for knitting and weaving.
Yarn
All of BRiCO’s yarns are made exclusively from recycled vintage clothing, and no dyes are used in the process. The colors are blended by hand by highly trained color experts to achieve the targeted palette in order to minimize color changes and maintain consistently high quality.
BRiCO’s Responsibilities
In the cleaning and sorting process, BRiCO strives to improve local unemployment issues by employing 300 women from neighboring communities who are unable to work due to illiteracy.
