EP69: Transforming plastic bottles into beachwear - Fair Harbor

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Guest

Jake Danehy

Role

Co-Founder and CEO

HQ

New York, NY

Fair Harbor Clothing on In Good Hands

Background

The fashion industry creates over 150 million pieces of new clothing each year. This amount to ~2.5 billion pounds of used clothing ending up in landfills annually. Fashion is also the second-largest polluter of water - The Ellen MacArthur Foundation found the industry dumps nearly a half million tons of plastic microfibers into the ocean each year — the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles.

Solution

Inspired by this problem, siblings Jake and Caroline Danehy founded Fair Harbor, a clothing company that makes swimsuits and beach apparel from recycled plastic bottles.

Episode Brief

Fair Harbor Co-Founder and CEO Jake Danehy joins Peter on this week’s episode to explore:

  • Figuring out how to turn plastic into swimsuits

  • How a college pitch competition funded the launch of Fair Harbor

  • Co-founding the company with his younger sister

  • Traveling to over 500 trunk shows

  • Upcycling millions of plastic bottles

Credits

HOST

Peter Levin

PRODUCTION

Dan Mahoney

MUSIC

Eddie Knuckles

Peter Levin