THE FABSCRAP ANNUAL REPORT 2019 THE FABSCRAP ANNUAL REPORT 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS Mission 1. SERVICE Press|Social Media Founder’s Note 2. COMMUNTY Financials Team | Board 3. RESOURCE Acknowledgements Highlights MISSION FABSCRAP endeavors to end commercial textile “waste.” To maximize the value of unused fabric, FABSCRAP is a convenient and transparent Service, is an affordable and accessible materials Resource, and is educating and empowering a Community of changemakers. FOUNDERS’ NOTE WELCOME TO THE FABSCRAP SHOP! At our Team Days in January, we casually discussed the idea that maybe we should explore opening a retail location in Manhattan. The dream was a fabric thrift shop! Near the garment district and design schools! Polished in all the ways the warehouse shopping experience is not! And in true FABSCRAP fashion, the idea led to action. By February we’d found a great location and signed a lease. What followed in March, April, and May was a labor of love. We welcomed Lindsey Troop to the FAB Team to help us open and run the Shop. Everyone we knew was recruited to renovate a nail salon into a new, convenient source for sustainable materials. Together we knocked down walls, chose lighting, painted, swept and mopped the dusty basement. We created shelves, built displays, and designed graphics for the walls. The night before we opened was a late one - finally adding all the fabric and getting every detail right - but still, every single member of the FAB team was there. We’re so proud of what we created! And we hoped everyone would love it too. We are so humbled and grateful for everyone’s response to our new shop - it’s been a wild success! Though the Shop opened on June 1, 2019, it made up 44% of our fabric sales for the year - which grew by 110% from 2018. This is the first year that fabric sales have surpassed service fees! We’ve always believed that for reuse and recycling to work at scale, there has to be a market for the recovered material. Through sales at the Shop, the Warehouse, our Online Store, Pop-ups, on Instagram, and through Custom Orders, we’re doing everything we can to redistribute these resources in the most accessible ways possible. Our goal this year was to give away as much fabric as we sold, but the Shop was so successful it was hard to keep up. We gave away nearly 40% of all outgoing material. This year’s growth in our service, community, and sales (which can be seen on every page of this report) adds to our confidence that the FABSCRAP model is needed and working. So much so that our end-of-year fundraising efforts focused on the idea that maybe FABSCRAP is needed on the West Coast too - we’re looking forward to that action next year... Jessica Schreiber Camille Tagle Executive Director Director of Reuse Partnerships FAB TEAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jessica Schreiber: Executive Director David Hirschler: President Camille Tagle: Director of Reuse Partnerships Jessica Schreiber: Vice President Annie Keating: Community Coordinator Nicholas Dominguez: Treasurer Sabina Montinar: Service Coordinator Camille Tagle: Secretary Lindsey Troop: Reuse Coordinator Margaret Bishop: Board Member 2019 HIGHLIGHTS LINDSEY JOINS MAY Lindsey joins the FAB team Margaret joins our Board New FABSCRAP barcode bags JUN Shop opens! Featured Artist/Designer Program launches SUMMER Sip-and-Sorts and Workshops Feature in Vogue SHOP LEASE SIGNING AUG MARGARET JOINS JAN Thaddeus Beals announced as the 2019 Free Fabric Winner FEB Found Shop location and signed lease MAR Spring Sort-A-Thon Shop construction begins APR New floors and fresh paint - Shop is SORT-A-THON ready for fixtures SHOP OPENS 3rd ANNIVERSARY SEP 3rd Anniversary Party Eileen Fisher NQP Partnership OCT Launch of Mendables Program NOV Fall Sort-A-Thon Feature in Forbes DEC Free Fabric for a Year Fundraiser FEATURED ARTISTS & DESIGNERS Feature in The NY TIMES 421 brands used FABSCRAP service in 2019 - a 60% increase from 2018 1. SERVICE In 2019, FABSCRAP completed 993 pick-ups, and collected 259,521 pounds of excess or unwanted material. HOW OUR SERVICE WORKS FABSCRAP’s textile recycling service is modeled to accommodate the specific needs of fashion, interior, and entertainment companies. Brands can choose between using our black, proprietary bags or brown, non-proprietary bags for their textile waste. Once full, FABSCRAP provides convenient, on-call pick-ups directly from a design studio or office. DATA TRACKING AND TRANSPARENCY FABSCRAP keeps meticulous data for each company who chooses to recycle their textile waste with us. Each year, we share a customized report detailing their total weight diverted from landfill, end-use of sorted material, and CO2 emissions saved. COMMITMENT TO OUR PARTNERS In 2019, FABSCRAP service grew by 60%, expanding service to a total of 421 brands. Through this exciting growth FABSCRAP is committed to giving quality care and attention to each new brand that joins us. We let brands choose whether or not we use their name and logo in our promotional materials. PRIOR YEARS 6 Shore Road Hickey Freeman Tailored Petite Soul Abby Lichtman Design Clothing Philomena Fox Abraham Label Himatsingka Seide LTD Private Packs WHO’S FAB Ace and Jig Hushed Commotion Proenza Schouler ADAY Isleñas LLC PVH-Heritage (DKNY) Alejandra Alonso Rojas J.Crew Quaint and Curious Volumes FABSCRAP proudly provides service to change-maker brands and AMadden Tailoring JB Martin R13 Denim Amanda + Chelsea Jeff Fender Studio Rachel Antonoff businesses. We now collect unwanted and unused material of any Amelie Mancini Jenny Yoo Rachel Comey size from 421 fashion, interior, and entertainment companies. Apparel Group JLEW Rallier ARK Junior Baby Hatter RDG Global Arkins KAHLE Studio Rebecca Taylor NEW IN 2019 BCA Resources Kate Can Quilt Reboundwear A/C SPACE Jonathan Cohen Sunrise Brands Beezie Textiles Kayrock Screenprinting Recycle Track Systems/ Andrew Suvalsky Designs Loeffler Randall Takihyo Co., Ltd. Belford Cashmere Kid Made Modern Barclays Arena Anna Cole Designs Loren Manufacturing The New York Sewing Center Bethany Joy Costumes Kordal Red Couch Clothing Atomic Freedom Macy’s tinyDWED Better Team USA Corp KRD Imports Rosina Mae Autumn Adeigbo Makers Market Universal Standard Better Than Jam Lafayette 148 SEAM USA Ava James NYC Mancini Duffy Van Saun Studio CEGO Custom Shirtmaker Lark and Raven, LLC Software Studios Charles Samelson Leanne Marshall Soor Ploom Badgley Mischka Mariko Ichikawa Vertical Verte Chelsea Textiles Lewis Cho Statuto Barnard College Design Center Melinda G Nursing Bras Vescom Textiles CHF Industries Lianfa Textile Inc STEPHANIE RASULO Beyond Now Apparel LLC Meryl Diamond Limited Vincetta Cienne Lilla P (L2 Apparel group/Leo Steven Alan Carolina Herrera Michael Andrew Bespoke Viva Aviva Holding, Inc Colin Davis Jones Studios Sage) Sukoon Active Charles Komar & Sons Michelle Yom Design Studio Vocon Colorant Live Lorelai LLC Tabii Just Christine Alcalay Misha Nonoo White and Warren Dazian Creative Fabric Loomstate Tailoring Robot Christy Rilling Studio Morris Adjmi Architect WNC LLC Environments Loulette Bride Tanya Taylor Designs Coldwell Banker Hickok & Narciso Rodriguez Workroom Social Diana Arge Mara Hoffman The Materials Center Boardman One Jeanswear Group DL1961 Marc Jacobs The TEN Apparel Darn Tough ORTA Don’t Worry Baby Megan Quarles Theaterworks USA Deborah Marquit OUISA Dream Yard INC Memory Threads Theory DECOR Pamplemousse Earth Angel MFA Fashion Design at FIT This is Edvin LLC DEPUIS TOUJOURS Panah Projects Edinger MM.LaFleur Thompson St. Studio Diane Vonfurstenberg Studios Patina Rentals Eileen Fisher Monastery of Our Lady of the Tillsonburg USA Drexel University Peerless Clothing Elise Ballegeer Rosary Timberlake Studios EAU CLUB Peloton Elizabeth DeSole Nassimi LLC Timothy WestBrooke Design Ellery Nikki Chasin Todd Snyder Echo New York Play Out Apparel Errant Heart Nualime Tracy Reese Fanm Djanm Remixd Clothing ESPRIT Oscar de la Renta True Textiles Gita Omri Rent the Runway Express Outlier Ultrafabrics, Inc Glory Apparel, Inc. Rita El-Hadi Factory 8 P/Kaufmann Victor Textiles GLOWE Salvage Cloth Fermata Designs Pallas Textiles Whit Handel Architects Sarah Musa Gerson & Gerson Paolo Blower International Who Shirt Company Ilana Kohn Saylor Goodship Textile Workshop World Textile Sourcing James Bears Foundation Signature Theatre Grammer, LLC Pembrooke & Ives Yuiitsu Dye Shop Jennyvi New York Stella Adler Studio of Acting Hanky Panky Perennial Ziel PBC DATA REPORT 2019 IMPACT REPORT (EXAMPLE ONLY - BRAND NAME HERE) FABSCRAP’s Impact Report may be the only consistent and public RECEIVING SERVICE SINCE 2017 measure of pre-consumer textile waste from commercial businesses. WEIGHT COLLECTED We share our annual and cumulative data each year to bring awareness to both the TOTAL 2019 volume of waste and the massive untapped opportunity to create a more circular 5,113 LBS supply chain. Every company utilizing FABSCRAP service also receives a custom Impact 10,781 LBS Report with their own metrics. # OF PICKUPS TOTAL 2019 GROWTH IN 8 FABSCRAP SERVICE 21 LBS # # TONS OF CO2 SAVED TOTAL 2019 300K 450 400 76.3 36.5 250K 350 EQUIV. TREES PLANTED 200K 300 TOTAL 2019 250 1,145 547 150K REUSED 45% RECYCLED 51% LANDFILL 4% 200 100K 150 BROWN BAGS BROWN ROLLS BLACK BAGS BLACK ROLLS 100 TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL 50K 115 200 80 226 50 2019 51 2019 158 2019 37 2019 41 0 0 - 2017 2018 2019 FABSCRAP LBS COLLECTED # OF BRANDS RECYCLING # POUNDS COLLECTED # OF PICKUPS TOTAL 2019 TOTAL 2019 3% 1% 14% 4% 493,800 259,624 2,166 1,162 32% # TONS OF CO2 SAVED EQUIV. TREES PLANTED TOTAL 2019 TOTAL 2019 3,356 1,669 50,336 25,036 REUSED 39% RECYCLED 51% LANDFILL 10% - 27% BROWN BAGS BROWN ROLLS BLACK BAGS BLACK ROLLS 15% INSIDE THE THE FIBER OF THE TOTAL 9,383 TOTAL 3,840 TOTAL 2,668 TOTAL 584 FABSCRAP BAGS FABRIC SCRAPS 2019 2019 2019 2019 5,274 1,998 1,612 285 FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US FOR FURTHER DATA AND DETAILS FABSCRAP is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization addressing NYC’s commercial textile waste.