One Warm Coat is a national cloud-based nonprofit organization that provides free coats to children and adults in need while promoting volunteerism and environmental sustainability. They are also a leader in fashion circularity and have helped multiple brands to meet their ESG and CSR goals, including J.Crew, Cotopaxi, Lands’ End, and Free Country.
Zero Waste Initiative: Working with The Clothing Industry to Reduce Waste
One Warm Coat’s Zero Waste Initiative supports circular fashion by reducing textile waste and maximizing the lifespan of clothing and textiles. This Initiative offers an environmentally conscious solution to retailers and manufacturers with overstock, irregular, and sample outerwear that cannot be sold. Through this program, retailers and manufacturers are able to ship unusable outerwear directly to those in need.
Does your company or business have outerwear items that cannot be sold? Contact One Warm Coat to learn more about how One Warm Coat can help you:
- Offload unwanted outerwear.
- Ensure they are given to children and adults in need.
- Receive a tax credit for your in-kind donation.
“At Joules, we respect the environment and see it as our responsibility to look after the world around us. We build-to-last and all our garments provide many years of use and can often be passed-on or handed-down. This is particularly relevant when some reports suggest that nearly two-thirds of clothing created by the retail industry overall end up in incinerators or landfill within a year of being produced. One Warm Coat’s Zero Waste Initiative is one of the ways Joules is working to reduce our impact and contribute to positive change. We’re proud to work with One Warm Coat to share warmth across the U.S.” — Florence Castillo, general manager (Americas), Joules
The Coat Drive Program
Founded in 1992, the Coat Drive Program has facilitated the collection and distribution of more than 8 million gently worn coats, while keeping 20 million pounds of textiles out of landfills. Thousands of individuals and organizations across the country hold coat drives each year. The coats they collect are given to children and adults in their community through a network of 1,500 local nonprofit organizations.
#ShareWarmthnotWaste
- Coats, jeans, and dresses take the most carbon to produce.
- In the US, clothes are only worn for around a quarter of the global average with nearly 60% of all clothing, or three in five garments, ending up in landfills or incinerated every year.
- If each item of clothing was worn twice as many times, greenhouse gas emission would be 44% lower.
Find out more about the Zero Waste Initiative and Coat Drive Program here. Watch an overview of One Warm Coat’s program here.
