WASHINGTON — We’ve all got them, old tee shirts that we will never wear again but we just can’t bring ourselves to get rid of. Whether they hold sentimental value, or you just love the look of them, ...
The pile of old t-shirt scraps was driving Ross Lohr nuts. It was 2016, and Lohr’s company, Project Repat, had a waste problem that was reaching a critical mass. The Cambridge, MA-based company, which ...
FALL RIVER (CBS) - A company known for giving new life to old T-shirts is now working to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Project Repat got started back in 2012 as a way to keep T-shirts out of ...
Employees: Founders are both full time and they have one, part-time employee. The pitch: We buy far more T-shirts in the U.S. than we’ll ever need, and many of those shirts wind up donated to ...
-- Who can argue about the idea of being a patriot at this time of year (or any time of year, for that matter)? -- Those looking for jobs in the fashion industry have a new resource courtesy of ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Boston-based Project Repat, a company that turns old T ...
When Ross Lohr and Nathan Rothstein founded Project Repat in February 2012, they wanted to prevent retailers and consumers alike from sending used T-shirts to landfills to go to waste. Six years later ...
FALL RIVER — Let’s just admit it: America has a T-shirt problem. You are still denying this? How does two billion T-shirts a year sound to you. Two billion. A year. But there is help — as close as ...
For Neal Venancio, owner of Precision Sportswear, the North American Free Trade Agreement was a disaster. The cut-and-sew shop in Fall River employed 60 workers when he bought it in 1993, but as his ...
Local restaurateur and chef, Jason Santos has opened a new restaurant in Boston, and Project Repat will help you find a use for your favorite old shirts. In the heart of the Seaport, One Seaport…two ...
At last night’s Mass Innovation Nights, Project Repat’s Nathan Rothstein said the company has found amazing success with one product in particular: Quilted blanks from your used T-shirts. Now the ...