Best of Earth911 Podcast: Beni’s Sarah Pinner on Making Shopping for Reused Clothing Fashionable

Best of Earth911 Podcast: Beni’s Sarah Pinner on Making Shopping for Reused Clothing Fashionable

Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This page may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something that I have recommended. There is no additional cost to you whatsoever.

The clothes we put on is a supply of carbon emissions and landfill waste. Sarah Pinner, co-founder and CEO of Beni, introduces a brand new plugin for Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers that helps buyers discover reused options to new clothes. Beni makes thrift buying straightforward with a digital serving to hand, and the staff is working so as to add environmental affect info to make selecting the lowest-impact possibility easy.

Reusing clothing is a crucial step towards decreasing our carbon and waste footprint. And, in accordance with GlobalData, a analysis agency, reuse buying has grown from virtually no income in 2012 to $14 billion in 2021. It’s projected that it’s going to attain $51 billion by 2026. Shoppers want a information to the exploding world of clothes reuse choices. Sarah additionally shares her concepts about methods to remodel thrift clothes right into a significant, scorching matter to make extra standard with all generations.

Sarah Pinner, co-founder and CEO of Beni
Sarah Pinner, co-founder and CEO of Beni, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

The World Economic Forum experiences that the style business emits as much as 10% of annual human emissions, although different estimates run as little as 2%. McKinsey & Co. says that lower than 1% of the cotton produced yearly is recycled and means that protecting international warming under 1.5 levels Celsius requires that we make garments last more and embrace reuse and rental applications. Reusing clothes is a crucial step to decreasing our carbon and waste footprint.

We’ve been testing the Beni plugin, which may perceive what product you’re looking at on an e-commerce website and counsel reuse options from different websites. Beni takes the consumer to the reuse website with a single click on, protecting the unique window open so it’s straightforward to check. You can be taught extra about Beni at joinbeni.com.

This podcast initially aired on December 9, 2022.