Hunkemöller & CEMBA
From textile waste to humanitarian aid. Circularity made in Bangladesh – transforming an environmental risk to an opportunity for people to get decent sleep.
In 2019 we teamed up with CEMBA, a social enterprise dedicated to bring together circular economy and humanitarian response. Together with CEMBA we wanted to utilize the pre-consumption waste from our supply chain and produce circular economy mattresses to cover the needs of the most vulnerable people in Bangladesh.
Off-cuts from Hunkemöller’s garment production have been donated to CEMBA to produce mattresses for 400 families who lost their belongings during the last floods in the country.
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The mattresses were distributed to the victims of the floods in the outskirts of Dhaka during 4 giveaway events, and we are monitoring the use and lifetime of the product over the coming year.
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