Eco-fabrics are more expensive, low-impact dyes are more expensive, and manufacturing locally and in small quantities is also more expensive. Due to these factors, for a garment to produce any sort of profit for the designer, the price point may be higher, but our mother earth is worth the extra expense and paying more for [...]

The recycled material is the same quality as the non-recycled polyester material and lycra. The material is a quality fabric and has a silky smooth finish and you wouldn’t tell the difference between recycled and virgin polyester fabrics. Critics at Fashion Shows using recycled materials couldn’t even notice the difference in textiles, and the models [...]

So what is the disadvantage of Recycled Plastic Polyester material? While there are some advantages to using polyester material, especially recycled material, unfortunately, the washing of all polyester clothing items released microfibers into the water supply! But luckily there are tips to minimize this, and solutions to prevent it – What are the solutions? • [...]

Well, the obvious advantage of recycling plastic to convert into material for clothing is that it reduces large-scale waste from entering oceans and landfill sites. Also, recycled material uses 50% less energy than is needed to manufacture virgin Polyester from scratch, 55% few carbon emissions are released and 20% less water is used, so using [...]

Each legging is made from around 25 recycled plastic bottles or plastic material collected from land and beaches all around the world. The process to make clothing from plastic bottles is as follows: The bottles are broken down into tiny flakes, those flakes are melted into pellets and then melted again. They are then filtered [...]

How are Firehart Eco Recycled Leggings helping the environment ? Every year, about 9 million tons of plastics find their way to our oceans, which is the equivalent of dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. 80% of plastic flows into the oceans from land, and at these rates, weight-wise, [...]

Firehart’s packaging is handmade buy a local Knysna company, Wrap It, who make custom boxes for all your needs. The boxes are made out of recycled [...]

Over Million Plastic Bottles are purchased all over the world per MINUTE – that is about 20 000 bottles per second !! If placed in a top to tail, these bottles would reach half-way to the sun. Wow ! Crazy numbers – and very dangerous for the health of our planet. Most of these bottles [...]