Community Clothing makes its jeans production zero waste with the help of Mark+Fold and The Paper Foundation.
Whilst all clothing manufacturers strive to create the least amount of textile waste, the cutting process is at best only about 90% efficient. Community Clothing is dedicated to removing all waste from their systems and following development trials earlier this year they are delighted to be moving into production of this beautiful paper made from the denim off-cuts. Community Clothing's jeans manufacturer Cookson & Clegg in Blackburn now collect all cutting room scrap by material and colour before sending it just a couple of dozen miles by road to Cumbria for processing. Cotton denim makes exceptional quality paper, resulting in a beautiful collection of notebooks that reflect the differing shades of denim they were made from.
“This is fantastic way of both preserving incredible local skills as well as making a beautiful super quality product from material that would otherwise have gone to landfill. It has been a pleasure to work with both Mark & Fold and The Paper Foundation, two amazing independent British producers.”
"We have built the Mark+Fold brand around a pride in sharing the making story behind every item of stationery that we make. We always use innovative sustainable papers, but this has to be our most exciting collaboration to date, because you can trace the material from the denim factory right back around to the finished notebook, and even pop it in your jeans pocket! "
