Turning Fashion Waste into Opportunity: How Kenya Roberson’s Elite Garment Distro is Tackling Fashion’s Sustainability Crisis
Fashion, often synonymous with creativity and expression, hides a darker reality beneath the glamor. As the second-largest polluting industry globally, fashion produces 92 million tons of waste annually—equivalent to a garbage truck full of clothes being dumped in landfills every second. The environmental impact doesn’t stop there: textile production requires significant amounts of water and energy, contributing to climate change, water scarcity, and widespread pollution.
“At Elite Garment Distro, we’re tackling the waste issue from the ground up,” says Kenya. “We source remnant inventory from brands and find ways to distribute it to consumers in a way that reduces waste and extends the life of these garments.”