A few weeks ago, we were approached by Julia Davies and Gwent Wildlife Trust to see if it was possible to create reusable patches that runners can pin onto their running gear and transferred to other tees over and over again without the need to create an ever growing mountain of polyester tees.
After a few discussions with Julia, the artwork was sent to Supacolour UK Ltd who managed to turn around the prints within a couple of days and as soon as they arrived, I got straight to work pressing them on to white polyester fabric. This fabric is from polyester event tees that have been donated to us from runners who no longer want them.
Each tee is cut down into panels with the offcuts being boxed and ready for cushions so nothing is wasted.
This is the end result and we are hoping other charities can get on board with this to prevent waste by repurposing the material that is already in circulation. I’m not sure on the carbon emissions for one tee (maybe someone can enlighten me to this figure), but we’ve used a total of 4 tees to create:
• 10x Running for Wildlife slogans
• 10x Gwent Wildlife Trust logos
• 20x small Gwent Wildlife Trust logos
• 8x names
The names can be reused by the runners for other events and if the logo / slogan patches are handed back in at the end of a race, they could potentially be used by other runners, over and over again.
It’s been an exciting project and one that will help drive positive change 👕
If you are interested in having us create some patches for you and your charity / organisation, please get in touch with us here.
