This garment may one day return to soil.
At the end of your garment’s life will it become part of the landfill or part of the landscape?
Composting Your Clothes
How can we transition from a take-make-waste model into a circular soil-to-soil system?
By investing in natural fibers, your clothing will eventually biodegrade when it reaches the end of its life. These are cellulose (plant) and protein (animal) fibers such as cotton, hemp, linen, silk, cashmere, alpaca, and wool. If clothing is blended at all with synthetic fabrics such as polyester, or if clothing is dyed with synthetic chemicals, it’s not suitable for the compost pile.
At Compost Clothes, we design our clothing in a way that it can return back to the soil to help regenerate and rebalance the carbon cycle. Everything from the fibers in our clothing, thread, dyes, and even tags are 100% natural and eco-friendly. Our clothing is either undyed or dyed naturally with plants and minerals. We sew our garments with pure 100% organic cotton thread that is free from synthetic finishes. We use eco-friendly coconut buttons, no zippers, and biodegradable GOTS certified organic cotton natural rubber elastic.
When you’re done with your garment, simply return it back to the Earth.
Here are some simple steps on how to compost your clothes:
Cut and shred the textiles into finer pieces.
Mix evenly into your compost pile.
Balance your pile with a healthy mix of browns and greens. Browns include dried leaves, paper, and cardboard. These materials are rich in carbon. Greens include your fruit and vegetable food scraps. These are rich in nitrogen.
Water the pile and turn every so often to aerate.
Watch your garment biodegrade in about four months!
