Aoyama Shoji An environmentally friendly, recyclable suit was created using unnecessary suits collected from customers! Launch of “Wear Shift Suit” incorporating recycled wool

[Aoyama Shoji] An environmentally friendly, recyclable suit is created by utilizing unnecessary suits collected from customers! Launch of “Wear Shift Suit” incorporating recycled wool ​
Aoyama Shoji Press release: November 12, 2024 An environmentally friendly, recyclable suit is created by utilizing unnecessary suits collected from customers! Launch of “Wear Shift Suit” incorporating recycled wool ~One year since the
installation of the recycling box, “Let’s make clothes that never end” will become a reality~
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Aoyama Shoji Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture/President: Osamu Aoyama) is a recycling company that incorporates wool from suits collected from “recycling boxes” installed at Aoyama clothing stores. The “Wear Shift Suit” style suit will be on sale from November 12th (Tuesday) at all “Aoyama Clothes” stores and the official online store. Product page: https://tinyurl.com/2vzkwvvh ■“Recycling box” for collecting unnecessary clothing, etc. Starting in October 2023, recycling boxes will be installed at Yotsuno Aoyama and Suit Square stores nationwide to collect unwanted clothing, with the slogan “Let’s make clothes that never end.” We have created an environment where customers can more easily participate in eco-activities. Release: ■“Wear shift suit” incorporating recycled wool In March 2024, we launched a “Wear Shift Suit” project that reuses cut scraps from the factory of our group company Melbo Men’s Clothing Industry and incorporates recycled wool. This suit was designed from a new perspective as an effort to reduce environmental impact. Release: To date, our company has strengthened various initiatives aimed at reducing environmental impact. As an eco-friendly activity we carry out together with our customers, we have installed a “recycling box” inside our Aoyama clothing store. One year later, a recyclable suit was finally created using the wool from the collected suits. Recycling wool is said to be difficult because the fibers are short, and the production process requires a lot of manual labor, and it is difficult to maintain uniform quality, making it time-consuming and labor-intensive. . This time, in the Bishu region (an area from northwestern Aichi Prefecture to Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture), which has been producing recycled wool for a long time, we will conduct an integrated process from sorting, spinning, and finishing the suits collected from our recycling boxes. I am using something. In addition, most of the materials other than wool are recycled materials, making the suit environmentally friendly. Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/115161/221/115161-221-4308e4ed9d68da753b7f2089d57377a2-900×1520.jpg [Product overview] Product Wear shift suit (1. Product number: 241191, 241192, 241193, 2. Product number: 241194) Color pattern 1. Brown, gray (stripe pattern) Navy, gray (herringbone pattern, glen check pattern) 2. Brown, gray (woven pattern) Materials 1. 32% wool, 46% polyester, 16% rayon, 5% nylon, 1% acrylic *All materials except 29% polyester are recycled materials 2. 64% wool, 24% polyester, 6% nylon, 4% cashmere, polyurethane 2% *All materials except 1% ​​polyurethane are recycled materials Size 1. YA3-8, A4-8, AB4-8, BE4-8 2. YA4-7, A4-7, AB4-7 Sales price: 43,890 yen including tax Sales stores: All Aoyama clothing stores, Aoyama clothing official online store *The information listed is current at the time of release announcement. ■ Initiatives in the Bishu region
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/115161/221/115161-221-0ea1e4cef02326d8d199838fbc55abae-2560×1884.jpg *Using clothing (100% wool suit) collected at stores *Fiber-to-fiber material that becomes the outer material (fabric part cut from a 100% wool suit) to recycled wool *The other lined parts are used as raw materials for fabric hang tags ■Comment from person in charge (Kota Kawarabayashi, Product Department)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/115161/221/115161-221-66874a701ecfc21b512f8c5f6d900a97-3900×3900.jpg This time, for the first time, we have completed a recyclable suit that incorporates wool from suits collected from recycling boxes. Since this recyclable suit was completed, we invited branch staff to tour the Bishu factory in order to spread the Wear Shift initiative within the company. The participants deepened their understanding by seeing for themselves how recycled clothing is turned into fabric. Once again, we would like to help our customers understand our efforts so that they can feel free to bring their unwanted clothing to our stores, and we hope to continue to strengthen our efforts to reduce our environmental impact. ■“Wearshift” declaration copy Special site: https://tinyurl.com/s9tpdbhb
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/115161/221/115161-221-b00338357c3271782f40bc11f23ab8af-1018×483.png ■About the recycling box “WEAR SHiFT”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/115161/221/115161-221-178656f66ec196169f3bc7772d459bb6-2194×2925.jpg Recycling boxes are installed at store entrances and near the cash register. Customers will be asked to place their unwanted clothing directly into the collection box and exchange it for a coupon. The recycling box is made of recycled material (Rifmo Board) that uses only waste fibers such as old clothes and old cloth. [Recycling BOX] Size: Length 45cm x Width 45cm x Height x 80cm Capacity: Approximately 15 suits Material: 100% waste fiber (Rifmo Board…A material made by heating and pressurizing textile waste.It has a structure in which the fibers are intertwined, so it is difficult to break and fragments are difficult to scatter.Made from old clothes and cloth. Therefore, it is attracting attention as an environmentally friendly material. What is WEAR SHiFT, which makes never-ending clothes? Aoyama Clothes YouTube official channel: https://youtu.be/yBbE45gxeOM ■Resource circulation using trade-in services
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/115161/221/115161-221-cb0a7cccad70272f84f9eab06694a90c-798×572.jpg The trade-in service began in 1998 at Clothing Aoyama stores nationwide. Almost the entire amount is recycled and reused, and the recycled products are mainly reused as insulation materials for cars and cushioning materials for luggage. In addition, in response to the increase in natural disasters in recent years, in 2018 we created a “disaster prevention blanket” (recycled blanket for disaster relief) made from recycled suits. Initially, the blankets were stockpiled and stored as disaster relief blankets, but from 2019, we started using blankets in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, Amami City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, etc., with the hope that they would be useful as preparations before disasters occur. *A total of 2,200 tickets have been donated to 11 local governments (as of the end of October 2024). Additionally, starting in fiscal 2021, we have started an initiative to donate 2.5 yen per kilogram to the forest conservation organization “More Trees” based on the amount collected. We will donate 874,930 yen in 2022 and 888,588 yen in 2023.