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Apparel in your Landfill, FabBRICK, Rick Fox Concrete Hoops, St. Vincent's New Album, Arvin Goods
Arvin News
Happy Sunday!
As you know we have built a business around something that touches the everyday lives of nearly everyone: socks. At Arvin Goods, we’ve elevated this everyday essential by focusing first on high quality and great comfort then integrating low-impact sourcing as a seamless part of the brand.
We have struggled over the years with how to present this. We first thought that a basic item like socks made with recycled materials would basically sell themselves. That wasn’t the case, “sustainability” alone doesn’t convert customers. We needed to lead with the product. Quality. Comfort. Prove that what we make is a great product first. The impact scores, or responsibility that is expected, and soon will be required, will follow. So, today we are touching on that quality we have become known for.
Our socks are designed with your comfort in mind, crafted to feel soft against your skin, and constructed to fit perfectly. We’ve taken great care to ensure that they are not only comfortable but also extremely durable. Made to withstand countless washes without losing shape or softness, our socks are a staple that you can rely on day in and day out.
We are equally committed to making them responsibly, and transparently. Our use of recycled materials reduces waste and conserves resources. By choosing materials like recycled cotton and polyester, we address the environmental impact connected to traditional apparel production, which often involves high water usage and significant waste.
With the average person going through numerous pairs of socks each year, the environmental footprint can be larger than you might expect. By focusing on creating high-quality, comfortable socks from sustainable materials, we provide a better product with a lower impact. It’s a simple choice that makes a big difference.
Hope you enjoy today’s Clean Up. We would love to hear from you. Comment here on substack hit us on social, or email us at info@arvingoods.com. Have a great week. Cheers,
Team AG ✌️🧦
Stories Of The Week…
Fashion
The Majority of Used Clothes End Up in Landfills. What If It Didn't Have to Be That Way? - Inc.
Consider the humble T-shirt.
A wardrobe staple for more than a century, the T-shirt has become a ubiquitous component of most closets. Yet, no matter their origin--a three-pack, a concert merch table, or a charity event--most tees will end up in the same place: A landfill.
That's right--data from NIST shows that just 15 percent of discarded clothing and textiles in the U.S. are collected for reuse or recycling. And to add insult to injury, data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows that in the U.S., the average person discards more than 100 pounds of textiles each year.
That is not a glitch but a feature--though a flawed one indeed--of the industry. To ensure that customers get the product they want in the size they need, brands produce in excess; better to have too much than to leave money on the table. What's left over, more often than not, is destroyed or discarded. It doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to understand the negative environmental impact such a system produces, but existing laws and systems have made it so that this process is the cheapest path of production.
But there may be opportunities, beyond environmental salvation, in the path less taken. What if there was a way to not only circumvent a garment's inevitable path to the trash heap, but to do so in a way that delivers a compelling return on investment? What if it was easy--and economically attractive--to recycle? ♻️👕
Design
FabBRICK
We transform daily your textile waste into bricks of different shapes & different colors.
With our materials we design your spaces and create your furniture, with your own textile.
Our technology can be adapted to all types of textile; it was patented in 2019.🧱👕
Industry
NBA Legend Rick Fox’s Next Act: Green Concrete Entrepreneur - Bloomberg
Rick Fox’s life has had many acts. NBA champion. Hollywood actor. E-sports executive. An Ambassador at Large to the world for the Bahamas, his home nation. And now, concrete entrepreneur.
It may seem a head-scratching turn for Fox, 54, yet it’s completely fitting with the character of someone who played with the fabled Los Angeles Lakers team that won three consecutive championships, from 2000 to 2002. Fox serially identifies a goal and then just hangs onto it, the way he broke a basketball rim in the 1992 NBA playoffs, when he was playing for the Celtics. You don’t captain a top NBA squad, as he did, without serious leadership skills.
There may be no bigger challenge than remaking concrete, which is humanity’s most-used substance besides water. The world churns out more than 30 billion tons of the stuff a year and uses it in everything from roads to high rises. The key ingredient is cement, the glue that holds crushed rocks together. While it’s essential to building the modern world, it’s also a major contributor to global warming: Producing cement is responsible for about 6% of all carbon dioxide emissions, according to a recent Rhodium Group estimate. 🧱🌿🏀
Entertainment
St. Vincent (and the rest of the world) starts over on All Born Screaming - AV Club
The “time of monsters,” according to philosopher Antonio Gramsci, comes when the old world is dying and the new one “struggles to be born.” His quote seemed to get a lot of play on social media in 2020, as we all watched endless death play out via smartphone screen. The old way of doing things was very clearly over, but the future felt impossible to conceptualize. But this quote also resurfaced in the fall of 2016 during a contentious U.S. election (maybe you remember which one). It seems reasonable that people may have reflected on this in 2008, or in 2001, or in any perennial crisis. In 2024, the new world still struggles to push into existence.
Point being, building something new is a long, protracted process. Annie Clark, the musician we know as St. Vincent, knows this, and her new album All Born Screaming dives straight into the amniotic fluid. Where her previous album Daddy’s Home often felt like a retreat into ‘70s psychedelia, All Born Screaming is a sprawling collage of the past half-century of rock and popular music. “So Many Planets,” from the album’s stellar second half, recalls Blondie’s reggae-curious “The Tide Is High” run through 90s SoCal rock, while second single “Flea” boasts Dave Grohl on the drums and the spirit of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer winding through synth layers just out of sight. Even the lead single, “Broken Man,” seems to mimic a beat from Rosalia’s “Motomami” before drawing in post-grunge guitars.🥁🎙️
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