Putting the planet's limited materials to good use. And reuse.
Some of the most innovative thinking at Gahumi goes toward producing fashion with recycled and renewable materials, making sure those products last as long as possible, and recovering everything by our supplier and bring them to new production. By keeping materials in circulation, we get closer to ending our material on wastes. And when we waste nothing, that will truly be success to our customer as well.
High-impact materials are our highest priority.
Gahumi uses many materials. To determine which to tackle first, we research and create Material Impact profiles. They break down the environmental, social and supply impacts of each material. As a result, we're prioritizing recycled polyester, nylon, recycled leather, polyurethane, zinc, biodegradable plastic and hemp. In 2019 these efforts will prevent our supply chain making more than 900 tons of pollute waste.
Recovering more materials more effectively.
Most of lining material we currently use are recycled polyester (rPet), recycled nylon and recycled cotton, this is a material that made by recover plastic bottles. The more materials we recover, the more we can rescue and recycled.
Innovating ways to use recovered and renewable materials.
Sometimes recovered scrap just isn't good enough to meet our quality standards. So we will development with our supplier to solve the problem, at the same time bring down the cost to let it can be particular use and accept by market.
Chemistry
A product is only as safe as what it's made of.
Materials are what make products texture, durability, and more beautiful. But in handbag industry they're not all created equal. That's why Gahumi dose industry-leading work to ensure that the substances making up those materials are safe for the people who use our products, for the customer who sell them, and for our planet.
We're exhaustively mapping the materials we purchase.
We evaluating everything that goes into our products. It starts to creating an extensive inventory of the substances used to manufacture them. That means as a supplier, we are looking at our suppliers too. We're working closely with our suppliers to construct a detailed map of the chemicals that make up our materials.
We evaluate chemicals for risks to your health, and the planet's.
Gahumi's Regulated Substances Specification is a comprehensive list of restricted chemicals that goes beyond regulations requirements. To keep the toxic chemicals out of our product, we closely work with environmental testing lab, the testing including simulate the interaction between your skin and materials that touch it.
Inventing ways to replace bad substances with good ones.
If there's a potentially harmful substance in materials, we will replace it with something safer. We trying to replaced PVC to PU on our body material, Lead and Nickel is a toxic metal, we replaced it with new electroplate way to reach lead and nickel free hardware, as well as the replace from traditional toxic glue to environmental water base glue.
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