We're all aware of the huge amounts of post-consumer textile waste - it's used items like old clothing - that ends up in landfills, but it's less common to hear about the waste generated by pre-consumer textiles. It's all the scraps created during the production process that don't turn it into finished parts, and up to 15% of textiles for clothing ends up on the cutting room floor. This represents hundreds of thousands of tons of wasted fabric.
With London-based brand Cutting Floor Cushions, founder Jacqui Braganza has created a way to prevent some of that waste from ending up in the trash by placing it on your sofas instead. Pre-consumer textile scraps (which have been converted into fibers) are transformed into ecological cushions. Not only do these interiors give new life to old textiles, but they require less energy and water to produce an interior made with new materials.
And cutting floor cushions doesn't stop at interiors, it produces entire eco-friendly cushions with limited edition blankets made from rolls and dead fabrics. Like the interiors, they are handcrafted in unique sizes to ensure that every piece of material is used.
Cutting Floor Cushions even offers a Restuff & Refluff service where you can return any brand bought cushions that have lost their squish to inflate, fill them up and prepare them for another round of lazing around. Any pieces of upholstery that need to be replaced, as well as the scraps from the cushion covers, are reused in other products such as rag and leftover cutters. Zero waste baby.
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