Using premium stock fabrics to make women’s underwear and scraps to make reusable logistics packaging bags, picupi helps textile factories reduce inventory and discarded fabrics while creating economic benefits.
According to statistics from the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, as of the end of 2016, Taiwan’s total accumulated inventory of woven and knitted cotton fabrics reached 439,443 thousand square meters, equivalent to an area 55 times the size of Sun Moon Lake. In addition, 14,115 metric tons of circular warp knitted fabric had been accumulated, equivalent to the volume of 10,857 small cars. If these large inventories of fabric cannot be effectively utilized, they will ultimately be burned, destroyed or buried, causing serious environmental impact.
The new life of premium stock clothing materials
Picupi fabricates women's underwear "00Pants" using premium A-grade research and development stock fabric made by Taiwan’s invisible champion textile brand Tex Tile Enterprise Co., Ltd., which has obtained bluesign® certification and is a designated supplier of internationally renowned underwear brands. This project gives new life to products that might otherwise be discarded, allowing for the effective repurpose of stock fabrics.
Scraps made into dual-use packaging tote bags
Picupi is committed to the recycling of discarded fabric scraps. The company transforms waste fabric into packaging bags for shipping online purchases, working with the logistics system of FamilyMart convenience stores to replace plastic wraps and sealable bags that are difficult to recycle. These packaging bags made from waste fabrics can be turned inside out and transformed into handbags for consumers to reuse, eliminating the problem of one-time packaging becoming excessive garbage.
Benefits
- Recycling the 4,000 yards of stock fabric and 5,000 yards of fabric scraps annually, and creating new economic benefits.