Circularity is part of our commitment to create and produce responsible, sustainable, and ethical fashion. Our vision of circularity is intertwined with initiatives in Brasil to reduce the environmental impact of our business. We have been enhancing our processes and Brazilian 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.

 

In addition to our textile and finished product donations, scrap recycling, and bazaars on designer websites, we circulate products among our employees and customers through the RE-FARM fair. Pilot pieces or those not sold in the physical stores and website are given another chance at our work units. In 2022, we had 2 fair editions with 1,540 people circulating 6,202 articles in our headquarters, totaling USD 139,679.17.

OUR GOAL

We’re moving forward to an increasingly responsible future, from Brasil to the world, and our goal is to foster the circularity of our products to be a zero-landfill waste company by 2030. We also want to consolidate and expand Circular Economy programs by 2025, increasing the amount of items with their life cycle extended by 20%.

RESULTS OF THE PARTNERSHIPS

FARM Rio advocates upcycling for defective items establishing partnerships in Brasil that give the clothes a new life and extend their life cycle with our Brazilian partners: Rede Asta, Oficina Muda, Re-roupa, and Enjoei.

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 (2022 report): 16.5 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 (2022 report): 14 tons of leftover fabric

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 (2022 report): 1,886 pieces of clothing collected