Sustainability

Sustainability is our mission, our vision, and the foundation of our core values.

It’s the purpose of the MenoMieux community and the reason for everything we do. We believe in a sustainable future of fashion. If you’re not already searching for sustainable alternatives to today’s top clothing brands, here are some statistics that might get you on board.

The average consumer creates 70 pounds or 31.75 kilograms of clothing waste every year.

On a global scale, we create 13 million tons of textile waste every year.

Out of that 13 million tons, 95% could be reused or recycled.

Sourcing

At MenoMieux, our selected brands partner with artisans, craftsmen, and farmers to source sustainable materials with the lowest possible impact on the environment.

Production

Each brand featured by MenoMieux must have transparent and traceable supply chain practices to allow us to trace and verify a company's environmental and labor standards. We select brands that reduce resource usage through sustainable manufacturing processing. Factors considered include resource use and waste management, energy use and carbon emissons, water usage & waste treatment, and other environmentally positive practices.

Fair Labor

We select brands that work with suppliers and factories that ensure workers are paid a living wage and provide fair, safe and healthy working conditions.

Circularity

We encourage our brand partners to create end-of-use strategies and support recycling and resale programs to extend the product lifecycle.

Materials

Materials you’ll find on MenoMieux from our trusted brands:

24k Gold Plated Brass

Abandoned Fishing Nets

Apple Leather produced from AppleSkin™

Apple Peels and Pomace

Apple Skin

Bamboo Rayon

Bio-Cotton

Brass

Cactus Leaves

Cashmere

Chrome-Plated Recycled Brass

Cork

Corn (Steam Bioeco)

Deadstock Fabric

Dinamica® Ecological Suede

Discarded Mangos

Eco Leather sourced from Genuine Leather Scraps

Eco Suede

Eco-Leathers (tanned without the use of harmful chemicals
like chromium and have no synthetic top finish)

ECONYL® Recycled Polyamide

Econyl® Regenerated Nylon

Elastane

GOTS Certified Organic Cotton

Hemp

Irish Linen

Linen

Microfibers Upholstery Fabrics

Milk Fabric

Modal

Natural dyes

OEKO-TEX® certified Denim

Organic Wool

Piñatex®

Plastic Waste

Polyester (low percentage in denim)

Polyurethane Coated Cotton Canvas

Premium Deadstock Natural Fibers

Pyratex®

Recycled Cotton

Recycled Elastane

Recycled Fibers

Recycled Metals for Hardware

Recycled Paperboard for Inner Construction

Recycled PET

Recycled Plastic Bottle Lining (rPET)

Recycled Polyamide

Recycled Polyester

Recycled Wool

Regenerated Silk

REPREVE Recycled Nylon

REPREVE Recycled Polyester

Responsible Wool

Silk

Spandex

Surplus Fabric sourced from markets and warehouses in India

Tencel™ Lyocell

Tencel™ Modal

Upcycled Cotton

Vegan Leather

Vegea, Lactae Hevea®

Water-based PU as Binding Agent

Wool from the SustainaWool Integrity Program