01 · Textile waste
Waste, diverted
We start with textile waste. A single hotel puts out 700 to 1,500 pounds of retired bed linen between collections.
Nothing in a closed system is thrown away.
It changes state, and then it comes back.
The regenerative loop
Waste in.Uniforms out.Back again.
02 · Fiber to fabric
New fabric, made locally
The waste is spun into new fiber and woven into new fabric. Every factory partner sits within a 5-mile radius of our headquarters, close enough that we know how the people sewing are paid and treated.
03 · Tracked in use
Tracked in service
Each garment is tracked while it is worn and washed, and can be mended to stay in use until the cloth is genuinely done.
04 · Take-back
Regenerated
At end of life the garment comes back to us and is turned into fiber for the next run.
Regenerated
Our missionEorte
Past sustainable. Regenerative.
Sustainable means doing less harm. Regenerative means a loop that renews itself: waste becomes fiber, fiber becomes fabric, fabric becomes uniforms, and worn uniforms come back to start it again.
- Made from waste
- Textile waste, spun into new fiber and woven into new fabric that survives commercial laundering.
- Tracked in use
- Every garment is tracked while it is worn, so the impact is measured rather than estimated.
- Regenerated at the end
- When a garment is done it comes back to us and becomes fiber for the next one.
What it leaves behind
Nothing comes back out of a landfill.
So we take uniforms back at end of life and make them into new fabric.
Why did we ever decide a uniform was disposable?
Eorte is here to change that.
Where that lands
- Pounds per pickup
700-1,500
Pounds per pickup
Retired bed linen collected from a single property, self-reported.
- To every factory
5 mi
To every factory
Maximum distance from the studio to a sewing partner.
- In Los Angeles since
2022
In Los Angeles since
Founded to turn textile waste into uniforms.