Two Utah State students pitched the idea of a mobile thrift shop to their entrepreneurship class. A year later, Thrift Jam is showing signs of success.
reported, the United States throws away 11.3 million tons of textile waste each year: or approximately 2,150 pieces of clothing every second. Making that disposable clothing, the report said, uses up fossil fuels, plastics and other pollutants.
Sustainability, James said, “comes into play a lot more with our reworked items that we do. … Most of those textiles are clothing items that are just worn to pieces [that] you can’t wear them anymore. We started reworking them into new pieces.” “I love textures and nice fabrics,” James said. “The design is irrelevant because every design is different, but I can control if I want thick fabrics.”In the year since they launched Thrift Jam, the couple estimate they have saved 12,000 clothing items. In June, they
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