MAKE ANEEW - Keeping discarded clothing at its highest value
MAKE ANEEW
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Description
A B2B Circular Design Recycling Center that recovers value, at scale, from discarded clothing and textiles through our unique services: recollection, sanitization, repair, remanufacturing and recycling. Through these processes we deliver new products to our clients, enabling them to create fresh revenue streams, acquire new customers, and enhance their environmental goals.
MAKE ANEEW provides a comprehensive service, from collecting of goods, sorting, design development to remanufacturing them. The goal is to encourage brands to repurpose textile waste, contributing to their sustainability objectives and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Central to this approach is a circular recycling center equipped with the necessary resources, aiming to divert fashion industry waste from landfills. This encourages the production of refurbished, recycled, and upcycled products, leading to new revenue streams and enhanced environmental goals. The initiative also focuses on job creation in the circular economy, reducing greenhouse emissions, and ultimately achieving zero textile waste to landfills for a more sustainable future.
MAKE ANEEW's approach to capacity building involves a multi-faceted strategy that includes community education, circular economy infrastructure development, active participation in industry groups, and the provision of workshops and consultancy services. Through these arrangements, the organization aims to foster a collaborative culture within the industry by actively contributing to the broader knowledge-sharing ecosystem.
MAKA ANEEW, is a for-profit startup, primarily governed and managed by its two co-founders, Carolina Bedoya and Carmen Gama. These individuals play a central role in overseeing the operations and ensuring that the initiative aligns with its core values. The governance structure is rooted in four principal values that guide the decision-making and overall direction of the organization.
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Use What Exists: Reclaim the value of discarded clothing.
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Design Solutions: The initiative is committed to a proactive approach in problem-solving to create effective and impactful solutions that address textile waste challenges.
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Profit for Purpose: Operate under the principle that financial gains are sought by recovering the lost value of post consumer clothing ensuring that profitability contributes to the overall positive impact of their organization and customers.
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Maximize Value: The organization is guided by a commitment to maximize the value of postconsumer clothing by creating entirely new products with them. This commitment reflects their contribution to sustainable practices and the circular economy, aligning with their broader mission.
MAKE ANEEW's evaluation framework incorporates both environmental and social dimensions, ensuring an assessment of its impact on garment diversion, circular economy education, waste reduction, job creation, fair wages, and the revival of localized remanufacturing.
Garment Diversion Evaluation:
MAKE ANEEW evaluates its impact by measuring the number of garments diverted from landfills. This metric serves as a key indicator of the organization's success in reducing textile waste and contributing to environmental sustainability.
Taskforce Training for Circular Economy:
A crucial aspect of evaluation involves training a new task force dedicated to fulfilling the circular economy. This initiative ensures that the organization is actively building capacity within the industry to adopt circular practices, contributing to long-term sustainability goals.
Impact on Clothing and Textile Waste Reduction:
MAKE ANEEW's evaluation criteria include assessing the positive social and environmental impact achieved by diverting clothing and textile waste from landfills. This encompasses reducing trash exports, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating soil and water pollution.
Job Creation and Fair Wages:
The evaluation process extends beyond environmental metrics to encompass social impact. MAKE ANEEW assesses its success in creating new jobs, imparting new skills, and introducing fair wages to a sector facing trade challenges. This evaluation aligns with broader goals of social responsibility and economic sustainability.
Localized Remanufacturing Impact:
An integral part of the evaluation involves measuring the impact of bringing localized remanufacturing back to the USA. This contributes to reshaping the industry landscape, promoting sustainability, and reducing reliance on global supply chains.
CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America), Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Community Platform, UN Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network
SDGS & Targets
Goal 9
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
9.1
9.1.1
Proportion of the rural population who live within 2 km of an all-season road
9.1.2
Passenger and freight volumes, by mode of transport
9.2
Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
9.2.1
Manufacturing value added as a proportion of GDP and per capita
9.2.2
Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment
9.3
9.3.1
Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added
9.3.2
Proportion of small-scale industries with a loan or line of credit
9.4
By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
9.4.1
CO2 emission per unit of value added
9.5
9.5.1
Research and development expenditure as a proportion of GDP
9.5.2
Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants
9.a
9.a.1
Total official international support (official development assistance plus other official flows) to infrastructure
9.b
9.b.1
Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value added in total value added
9.c
Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020
9.c.1
Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology
Goal 12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.1
Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.1.1
Number of countries developing, adopting or implementing policy instruments aimed at supporting the shift to sustainable consumption and production
12.2
By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.2.1
Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
12.2.2
Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
12.3
By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
12.3.1
(a) Food loss index and (b) food waste index
12.4
By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
12.4.1
12.4.2
(a) Hazardous waste generated per capita; and (b) proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment
12.5
By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.5.1
National recycling rate, tons of material recycled
12.6
Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.6.1
12.7
Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
12.7.1
Number of countries implementing sustainable public procurement policies and action plans
12.8
By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
12.8.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
12.a
Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12.a.1
Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing and developed countries (in watts per capita)
12.b
Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
12.b.1
Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability
12.c
Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities
12.c.1
Amount of fossil-fuel subsidies (production and consumption) per unit of GDP
SDG 14 targets covered
Deliverables & Timeline
Expand our production capacity by training and creating new jobs for the circular economy in the USA, with a focus on sortation, repair, and remanufacturing
Capacity expansion to Mexico for remanufacturing
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Other beneficiaries
Our customers: clothing brands, designers, institutions, museums, etc
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