Our Sustainable Process

It shouldn’t cost you the earth to buy clothing made from recycled materials. But if you’re worried about the impact your clothes and the textile industry are having on your wallet and the planet, worry not.
At Tmorrow, we ensure an eco-conscious design and production process from start to finish. Let’s take collaborative action to reduce our fashion footprint.

Did you know that 87% of fashion waste ends up in landfill or incinerated? Most of this is within the first year of buying, too. Fast fashion is one of the largest polluting industries in the world. It contributes to climate contamination and creates extensive damage to the environment via water, air and soil pollution. 

Fortunately, as a conscious consumer, you can help change this. On average we buy 56 new items every year, making Australia the second-highest consumer of textiles per person in the world. It’s an ugly statistic. 

Especially when there’s another way to look and feel fantastic in the clothes you buy. Through eco-fashion we encourage a more climate-conscious collective. 

Even by taking small actions, you can help create a global movement that will end fashion waste and change our consumption habits for the better. 

Why Choose Recycled Cotton?

Recycled cotton reuses existing materials to divert fabric from going to waste. 

At Tmorrow recycled apparel, we use recycled pre-consumer cotton – that’s the textile waste found on cutting room floors. Each t-shirt has 60% recycled pre-consumer cotton. 

Textile waste accounts for 20% of the total fabric volume used by manufacturers. By repurposing and recycling this cotton waste, we reduce resources and breathe new life into discarded materials. 

This is the first step in our sustainable clothing process. 

Next, we sort the waste by type and colour, tear the cotton fabrics into strips and unravel them into fibres. Because these scrap fibres are shorter than new fibres, they’re much harder to spin into garments. This is why our clothing made from recycled materials is mixed with Recycled Polyester (RPET), ensuring the quality, strength and durability of the yarn. 

Custom Printed Hoodies and T-Shirts Made from Recycled PET Quality polyester made from recycled plastic bottles has a significant environmental benefit. 

Along with recycled cotton, we spin 40% Recycled Polyester (RPET) to make our high-quality, ethical hoodies and t-shirts. This is achieved by melting down the plastic and re-spinning it into new, recycled polyester fibres – a process that uses 59% less energy. 

The raw material comes from existing single-use items. 

Each Tmorrow t-shirt made from recycled materials uses 4 plastic water bottles that would’ve otherwise ended up as waste, clogging landfills and oceans and further polluting our planet. 

Our recycled t-shirts and hoodies are good for the planet and people. 

By using 100% recycled material in our clothing, we reduce any dependence on petroleum and generate fewer CO2 emissions. More importantly, our sustainable processes respect precious resources by eliminating them to save our planet’s water, minimise pollution and prevent tonnes of cotton scraps and plastic from being burned off into the atmosphere. 

The Savings You’ll Make

Buying clothes made from recycled materials in Australia is more expensive than conventional cotton clothing. Or is it? And what’s the cost of the earth’s resources? The resources needed to grow and harvest cotton plants are problematic with hungry agricultural needs that drain the environment. A single cotton t-shirt costs the planet 2,720 litres of fresh water. That’s as much water as one person would drink over three years. 

When you shop, design and print with Tmorrow, you’re saving the resources of the future. We price our recycled clothing competitively with other customisable t-shirts and hoodies and brands that offer conventional cotton – but our apparel won’t cost you the earth.