ROCK RECYCLED™

by Wear Your Music

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An exclusive apparel collection for band merchandise. Hand-selected upcycled apparel is screen printed or embroidered in limited-edition batches with band logos. Each collection is unique – no two pieces are the same.

One-of-a-kind, environmentally conscious music merchandise at affordable prices.

Proudly made in the USA by a women-owned and operated business.

Sustainable | Fashionable | Collectable

Give your fans a unique and eco-friendly concert shopping experience!

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OUR STORY

 

Hannah Garrison, CEO and designer at Wear Your Music, started her journey transforming used guitar strings from famous musicians into collectable and wearable memorabilia. (Check out that project at www.wearyourmusic.com).

Removing mountains of metal from the waste stream of the music industry led Garrison to consider other ways to increase the environmental sustainability of touring.

While meeting up with donating musicians at their shows to collect strings, Garrison always visited the merch tables to browse the wares. She noticed that such items were typically made in China for cost effectiveness–or maybe because there just weren’t any other options that were sustainable, affordable and, most of all, cool.

The Rock Recycled project is Garrison’s answer to this dilemma. Used apparel is removed from the waste stream and hand-selected for tour merchandise. Screen printed or embroidered in limited-edition batches, the collections have an iconic and long-lasting appeal. When taken on tour, these unique pieces allow fans to experience a values-based, one-of-a-kind band merch experience.

 
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FAST FACTS

 

  • Americans alone throw away about 10.5 million tons of clothing every year.

  • Approximately 1,800 gallons of water are required to make one pair of blue jeans. The production process of making one pair of jeans also generated greenhouse gases equivalent to driving over 80 miles.

  • About 90 percent of the cotton grown for textiles is genetically modified, which means it is heavily reliant on pesticides. In fact, almost 20 percent of pesticide use worldwide is for use on cotton plants. These chemicals contaminate nearby water supplies and acidify the soil. 

  • In the 1950s people spent about 20 percent of their income on clothes. We are buying four times as much clothing as we used to but are spending 17 percent less because we buy clothes that quickly fall apart or goes out of style (or both), and so we throw them in the trash and buy something new.

  • More than 60 percent of fabric fibers are now synthetics, derived from fossil fuels, so if and when our clothing ends up in a landfill (about 85 percent of textile waste in the United States goes to landfills or is incinerated), it will not decay.

  • The production of the synthetic fabrics releases nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that is 310 times stronger than carbon dioxide.

 

In the News

 

VOGUE.COM

The Future of Fashion Is Circular: Why the 2020s Will Be About Making New Clothes Out of Old Ones

“…The idea of owning something cheap that you only wear a few times feels pretty horrible in light of the climate crisis; once you know precisely what goes into a garment—the good and the bad—it’s impossible to shop so carelessly again.”

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NYTIMES.COM

The Future Is Trashion

“As fashion comes to grips with its own culpability in the climate crisis, the concept of upcycling, whether remaking old clothes or re-engineering used fabric or simply using what would otherwise be tossed into landfill, has begun to trickle out to many layers of the fashion world.”

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NYTIMES.COM

How Fast Fashion Is Destroying the Planet

“More than 60 percent of fabric fibers are now synthetics, derived from fossil fuels, so if and when our clothing ends up in a landfill (about 85 percent of textile waste in the United States goes to landfills or is incinerated), it will not decay.”

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NPR.COM

'The Best Thing You Can Do Is Not Buy More Stuff,' Says 'Secondhand' Expert

“They end up in the landfill or the incinerator. I mean, there is no green heaven, if you will. Everything wears out eventually and everything gets tossed out. ... That's the fate of stuff. That's the fate of our consumerist societies.”

 
 

NEED MORE INFO?

 

Email us at info <at> wearyourmusic.com