ForDays Clothing Company Joins EON’s CircularID System
Kristy Caylor, founder and CEO of clothing company ForDays, has created the world’s first closed-loop clothing manufacturing system. ForDays customers purchase a tee shirt for a one-time price, and return the tee shirt for a brand new one when it’s worn out, stained, or old. This old tee shirt is broken down by ForDays’ patented recycling system, and old fibers are combined with virgin cotton to create fresh tee shirts. This is is the closest thing to an end-to-end recycling that the fashion industry has ever seen.
“If you can’t understand or track a product’s entire life cycle how can you ensure that its value is retained and that it comes back into the system? — Kristy Caylor, ForDays CEO
Since ForDays founders Kristy Caylor and Mary Saunders have been developing and launching their closed-loop system, they recently teamed up with EON, Target, H&M Group, Microsoft, and The Renewal Workshop by joining the CircularID Initiative. Launched by EON, CircularID Initiative will allow stakeholders to share detailed information about manufacturing materials and processes with anyone else throughout the supply chain.
In order for us to be connected throughout the lifetime of the product, it takes cross-industry collaboration.” — Kristy Caylor, ForDays CEO
The program aims to do everything from help recycling companies understand what a fabric is made of, to allow brands to refurbish old garments and secondhand marketplaces authenticate luxury goods (FastCompany). Because the ForDays system is built for circularity and trace-ability, Kristy and Mary are excited to implement the tracking program to their existing supply chain.
“… this particular economy [the circular economy] is what we need to enable to make fashion relevant to the future.” — Kristy Caylor, ForDays CEO
Read More: Introducing CircularID, The Ambitious Plan to Publicly Track Every New Garment We Buy
