Green Matters.
All PRODUCTS ARE MADE FROM 70%
-80% ♻️
recycled materials…
SUCH AS FISHING NETS 🐟
OUR FABRICS.
Our Promise: Sourcing our Products towards Sustainable Ocean Health.
Virago products are made from Vita fabrics by Carvico. The sustainable techno-fabric is made of 70-80% ECONYL® regenerated Nylon. Vita is versatile, hyper-resistant, thin, elegant, stretch, soft and breathable. A unique mix of muscular compression and comfort. Thanks to its innovative construction, it is twice as resistant to chlorine and suntan creams and oils than competitors’ fabrics. ECONYL® regenerated nylon is a product that can help you close the loop. 🐳Made from waste, it's infinitely recyclable and can unleash infinite possibilities for makers, creators and consumers. It's all part of the ECONYL® brand vision to make the world a better place by pioneering closed loop regeneration processes and delivering sustainable products. The Vita fabric is also following the Global Recycling Standards and is Oeko-Tex and Reach certified.
OUR CONVERSATIONS.
OUR PACKAGING.
We are using corn starch packaging for our product bags. The material is 100% compostable and therefore, theoretically, edible. We don’t encourage to consume the packaging, however we are proud to leave no traces in the environment caused by unnecessary packaging 🌽.
We are using an oxo-biodegradable material for our mailing bags, which is different from common plastic bags 🍍.During the production of the material, we add a fungi/bacteria to it’s components. We prefer the bags to get reused, reduced and recycled, however should any of our bags ever end up in the open environment, the d2w then takes effect and the product begins to degrade in the presence of oxygen, leaving no longterm traces in the environment.
OUR DELIVERIES.
🌱All our shipments are carbon neutral parcel deliveries as we are purchasing carbon credits sending parcels with our MyPost Business account.
What is ‘carbon neutral’?
Carbon neutral means:
reducing emissions from our operations where possible
compensating for the remaining emissions by investing in carbon offset projects.
The process of delivering a parcel emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which is shown to have a negative impact on our environment.All our shipments are carbon neutral parcel deliveries as we are purchasing carbon credits sending parcels with our MyPost Business account.
OUR PROMISE.
We care about how we show up in this world and what footprint we leave behind. We are responsible to sourcing our products towards sustainable ocean health as well as the health of our home, planet earth.
💪🏽”We Dare & We Care”.♻️
What’s ECONYL®?
ECONYL® regenerated nylon is the material won out of collected fishing nets and other nylon waste. This component is combined with spandex ~ 20% to create a wearable and stretchable fabric. This fabric is called VITA, which we are using to create out beautiful Virago collection.
HEALTHY SEAS PARTNERSHIP
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Healthy Seas 🐋 The non-profit organisation is saving our oceans from ghost-net pollution (abandoned fishing nets) preserving precious maritime wildlife 🦀
With over 170 voluntary divers, they have successfully recovered over 57‘200kg of fishing nets since 2013.
Those have been upcycled into fibres ➡️2.5 times more durable!!! which we are proud to be using in our Virago products 💪🏽 Hence, 1% of profit and future fundraisers will be dedicated to our partnership.
What a win ♻️From Waste To Wear.