Product Facts

Designation

ButtonUp

Description

The textile industry generates an extensive amount of pollution worldwide. Many clothes ending up in donation bins have malfunctioning closures such as buttons, press studs, zippers, etc., making them unfit for the second-hand market. Before repurposing and shredding the textile, remaining fasteners must be taken out manually within the recycling facilities – a labour intensive procedure. ButtonUp proposes a system in which buttons are treated as precious goods. Instead of sewn-in fasteners, ButtonUp allows for simple and easy exchange or removal by the user without a needle or yarn. Aluminium closures and cotton fabric can be re-used, changed, or finally, at the garment's end stage of life - fed back separately into recycling.