What We Do. We upcycle waste to create
stylish, high quality, and limited collection handbags. Upcycling: The repurposing of a material into a product of higher quality.
Materials. We make our products using pre-consumer
waste collected from factories that discard them due to misprints and overages.
Instead of having them end up in landfills, we use them as raw materials for
our products.
Upcycling Partners. Our partners include The
Coca-Cola Company, Disney, Mars, Frito Lay, Luna Bar, and AVEDA, among
others. In the last 4 years, we’ve
saved more than 15 million candy wrappers from going to landfills.
Fair Trade Manufacturing. Ecoist handbags are made in
a fair trade, sweatshop-free production center in Peru. Fair Trade is a
manufacturing partnership that recognizes the need of fair wages, healthy
working environments, and respect for the local cultural identity.
Buy a Bag, Plant A Tree. In partnership with Trees for the Future, Ecoist plants a
tree for every handbag. Over the past 4 years, Ecoist has planted more than
80,000 trees. Recently,
Ecoist has planted trees around the world including India, Uganda, Haiti,
Mexico, and the United States
