{"id":145,"date":"2023-07-01T01:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/?p=145"},"modified":"2023-07-01T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T02:02:24","slug":"refleece-repurposes-wasted-or-excess-materials-into-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/2023\/07\/01\/refleece-repurposes-wasted-or-excess-materials-into-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"ReFleece repurposes wasted or excess materials into something new"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Brian Shekhel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At his former job, Sam Palmer noticed a problem: Excess clothing had created an abundance of wasted materials for companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2012, Palmer co-founded&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/refleece.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ReFleece<\/a>, a lifestyle company focused on upcycling other businesses\u2019 wasted or excess materials, with Jennifer Feller. Their goal was to take items that were seemingly unusable and use their materials for something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling\/textiles-material-specific-data\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>, 17 million tons of textile waste was produced in 2018 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/express.adobe.com\/page-embed.js\"><\/script><a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/express.adobe.com\/page\/lcAOrsp298jvf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/express.adobe.com\/page\/lcAOrsp298jvf\/embed.jpg?buster=1688176317218\" alt=\"A New Life for Old Things\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their goal is to take items that were seemingly unusable and changing them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/theeclipse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}