A Circular System Enabled

The collaboration between Ridestore and TEXAID was a customized service based on brand needs and TEXAID expertise. Ridestore sent items that, for one reason or another, no longer met first quality requirements of the brand. Examples of this included defective products, returns, claims, and damaged or worn items. Upon arrival, TEXAID’s experienced and trained staff sorted according to brand specific criteria as well as the EU waste hierarchy to determine each item's next lifecycle. Items that, with a little help, could continue to be used in their originally intended form, were renewed. To be prepared for reuse, they were cleaned, repaired, relabeled with SKU and hangtags, given a quality check to ensure the highest level of service, rated according to Ridestore Renewed level, and repackaged. TEXAID returned the renewed goods back to Ridestore to enable their next use phase through their Renewed platform.

The remaining goods were also given their next most environmentally friendly lifecycle. Anything that was still wearable but did not meet the Ridestore Renewed program criteria still had a next use phase through one of TEXAID`s resale channels. Items too worn for renewal found their next life downcycled into, for example, industrial cleaning wiper or insulation material for other industries. The small portion that could not go to any other stream was sent to thermal recovery. Nothing went to incineration or landfill.

With TEXAID’s service, Ridestore could efficiently hand off the tasks of sorting, cleaning, repairing, relabeling, repackaging, reselling, and recycling the items that would otherwise have gone unused and clogged their warehouse. This partnership allowed Ridestore to do what they do best, make great products and offer recommerce to their customers and TEXAID took care of the rest.