Join the movement
TACKLE hardship and waste
Right from your place 🚪
Ripple is a circular social enterprise providing essential clothing to Kiwi kids living in hardship and diverting unwanted textiles from landfill through our reuse, repair, repurpose, recycling and redesign system. We equip kids with what they need and reduce the massive impact textile waste has on our environment.
tackle hardship and waste
Right from your place 🚪
Ripple is a circular social enterprise providing essential clothing to Kiwi kids living in hardship and diverting unwanted textiles from landfill through our reuse, repair, repurpose, recycling and redesign system. We equip kids with what they need and reduce the massive impact textile waste has on our environment.
WHAT WE DO
Ripple collects, sorts and distributes unwanted and outgrown children’s clothing (newborn to 12 years) from families, schools, businesses and excess inventory from retailers nationwide.
Through our community partners, we deliver Gear Box clothing parcels to children that need them most and pass on the not-so-great stuff to our community of repair, repurpose and recycling partners. Once entering our system, all clothing is reused or recycled and impact statistics are shared.
It is an easy way for Kiwis to tackle material hardship, textile waste and their carbon footprint.
WHAT WE DO
Ripple collects, sorts and distributes unwanted and outgrown children’s clothing (newborn to 12 years) from families, schools, businesses as well as excess inventory from retailers.
Through our community partners, we deliver Gear Box clothing parcel to children that need them most and pass on the not-so-great stuff to our community of repair, repurpose and recycling partners.
Once entering our system, all clothing is reused or recycled. It is an easy way for Kiwis to tackle material hardship, textile waste and their carbon footprint.
our work in progress
Watch this space to see how we track on the metrics that matter to us.
itemS processed
ITEMS REUSED & DONATED
itemS Recycled
REPAIRED OR REPURPOSED
Kids clothed for a year
KGS of CO2 emissions prevented*
*Based on a conservative 0.490kg CO2-e/per kg.
JOIN the MOVEMENt
FROM HOME
Simply purchase a collection bag, pack your unwanted items and put them on your doorstep.
Leave the rest to us.
from work
Tackle hardship, carbon and waste right from your workplace, with almost zero time commitment.
FROM SCHOOL
Empower your students to make a difference and experience how making a small change can have a big impact.
we’re a bit different
💖 We’re a social enterprise, working towards financial self-sustainability through our circular model that tackles waste head-on.
💡 Rather than competing for funding that may not be there in the long term, we ask to be paid to process clothing. This means we can directly chip away at our mission, while creating jobs and much needed processing capacity in NZ.
🌏 With a dual focus on social and environmental impact, we are exploring ways to utilise our waste to help fund our work.
🚪 We make tackling hardship and waste easy, offering a range of options directly from your home, pre-school, school or business.
📦 We operate nationwide and accept items from all corners of the country. With every supporter receiving a breakdown of their impact.
JOIN the MOVEMENt
from home
Simply purchase a collection bag, pack your unwanted items and put them on your doorstep. Leave the rest to us.
from work
Tackle hardship, carbon and waste right from your workplace, with almost zero time commitment.
from school
Empower your students to make a difference and experience how a small change can have a big impact.
we're a bit different
💖 We're a social enterprise, working towards financial self-sustainability through our circular model that tackles waste head-on.
🌏 With a dual focus on social and environmental impact, we are exploring ways to utilise our waste to help fund our work.
💡 Rather than competing for funding that may not be there in the long term, we ask to be paid to process clothing. This means we can directly chip away at our mission, while creating jobs and much needed processing capacity in NZ.
🚪 We make tackling hardship and waste easy, offering a range of options directly from your home, pre-school, school or business.
📦 We operate nationwide and accept items from all corners of the country. With every supporter receiving a breakdown of their impact.
here for a reason
The need
We suffer from one of the worst rates of child poverty in the Western world with one in eight kids going without basic essentials items.
The excess
Many families find themselves with an excess of outgrown or unwanted clothing and shoes and are wanting easy, sustainable ways to pass these items on.
The waste
Textiles are one of the fastest growing, carbon intensive waste streams, responsible for up to 10% of global carbon emissions - alongside oil, gas and agriculture.
THE gear box
A Gear Box provides all the clothing essentials a child needs day to day throughout the year. These clothing parcels save families between $200-$400 per year and are distributed through Women’s Refuge, Oranga Tamariki Ministry for Children and Middlemore Neonatal Unit.
Families can receive one Gear Box per child per year, once these are outgrown they can send their items back through our system for either reuse or recycling.
BOOK A GEAR DRIVE
Support our work at your work by hosting a Gear Drive. Employees can drop in unwanted clothing into a temporary or ongoing collection station. It’s an easy and engaging way for your business to support both community and environmental good.
"The Ripple team are amazing. The Gear Drive was such a great way of making it easy for our staff to take part in a local sustainability initiative which has fantastic social and environmental outcomes." Carolynn Gubb, NZ Post Community & Social Impact Manager.
“The human impact of Ripple is substantial. This closely aligns with Downer’s values and with our sustainability strategy which is focused not just on our environmental footprint, but also on our social impact.” Sandra McCormack, Downer Group National Procurement Manager.
BOOK A GEAR DRIVE
Support our work at your work by hosting a Ripple Gear Drive in your office. It’s an easy way for your business, school or ECE to support both community and environmental good.
"The Ripple team are amazing. The Gear Drive was such a great way of making it easy for our staff to take part in a local sustainability initiative which has fantastic social and environmental outcomes." Carolynn Gubb, NZ Post Community & Social Impact Manager.
BOOK A GEAR DRIVE
Support our work at your work by hosting a Gear Drive. Employees can drop in unwanted clothing into a temporary or ongoing collection station. It’s an easy and engaging way for your business to support both community and environmental good.
"The Ripple team are amazing. The Gear Drive was such a great way of making it easy for our staff to take part in a local sustainability initiative which has fantastic social and environmental outcomes." Carolynn Gubb, NZ Post Community & Social Impact Manager.
“The human impact of Ripple is substantial. This closely aligns with Downer’s values and with our sustainability strategy which is focused not just on our environmental footprint, but also on our social impact.” Sandra McCormack, Downer Group National Procurement Manager.
BOOK A GEAR DRIVE
Support our work at your work by hosting a Ripple Gear Drive in your office. It’s an easy way for your business, school or ECE to support both community and environmental good.
"The Ripple team are amazing. The Gear Drive was such a great way of making it easy for our staff to take part in a local sustainability initiative which has fantastic social and environmental outcomes." Carolynn Gubb, NZ Post Community & Social Impact Manager.
because of you
We are able to make this happen.
big THANKS
To our partners for helping us work towards our social and environmental mission.
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0800 328 433
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