EP69: Transforming plastic bottles into beachwear - Fair Harbor
Background
The fashion industry creates over 150 million pieces of new clothing each year. This amount to ~2.5 billion pounds of used clothing ending up in landfills annually. Fashion is also the second-largest polluter of water - The Ellen MacArthur Foundation found the industry dumps nearly a half million tons of plastic microfibers into the ocean each year — the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles.
Solution
Inspired by this problem, siblings Jake and Caroline Danehy founded Fair Harbor, a clothing company that makes swimsuits and beach apparel from recycled plastic bottles.
Episode Brief
Fair Harbor Co-Founder and CEO Jake Danehy joins Peter on this week’s episode to explore:
Figuring out how to turn plastic into swimsuits
How a college pitch competition funded the launch of Fair Harbor
Co-founding the company with his younger sister
Traveling to over 500 trunk shows
Upcycling millions of plastic bottles
Credits
HOST
Peter Levin
PRODUCTION
Dan Mahoney
MUSIC
Eddie Knuckles