Name

FABSCRAP

Legal name

FABSCRAP, INC.

Website

https://fabscrap.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Recycling Services

NAICS

Sewing, Needlework, and Piece Goods Retailers (459130), Solid Waste Collection (562111)

SIC

Wholesale-Apparel, Piece Goods & Notions (5130)

akta.pro primary industry

Donation, Resale & Textile Recycling Coordination (HSAFABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recycling & E-Waste Collection/Hauling (HSAKALAJ), Bulk Item & White Goods Collection (Bulky Waste) (BPALAAAD), Makerspaces & Fab Labs (Open Build Studios) (EDAMADAC)

Keywords

• Commercial textile recycling
• Pre-consumer fabric waste
• Sustainable fashion materials
• Textile circularity services
• Reclaimed fabric resale

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Service Fees (Brands): FABSCRAP charges brands service fees for materials that need to be downcycled or recycled. Non-proprietary apparel fabric rolls are picked up for FREE. Brand partners are invoiced after pick-ups through the Partner Portal.
2. Service Fees (Individuals): Individual recycling fee of $2/lb for fabric scraps dropped off at Brooklyn Warehouse. The service fee helps cover the cost of processing and recycling material. Fees are waived for readily usable materials such as fabric yardage (2+ yards) or trims/notions at staff discretion.
3. Donations and Grants: FABSCRAP is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit organization relying on corporate and individual donations to sustain recycling services. 2026 fundraising goal is $50,000. Monthly 'FAB Friends' donor program aims to raise $1,000/month. Donations are tax-deductible.
4. Fabric and Material Sales: Sale of recovered fabric scraps, yardage, leather hides, yarn cones, trim, and shoddy (downcycled fiber) through in-person warehouse shopping and online store (shopfabscrap.org). Materials are sold at thrift-store pricing, with wholesale category available for discounted bulk purchases.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

FABSCRAP collects pre-consumer commercial textile waste (fabric scraps, headers, swatches, yardage, bolts) from fashion, interior design, and entertainment brands via a branded-bag pickup service in NYC and Philadelphia. Collected materials are sorted and either resold through the Brooklyn warehouse Reuse Room and online store at shopfabscrap.org or downcycled into shoddy insulation. The organization also sells fabric to individuals and provides certificates of destruction for proprietary materials, with impact data delivered via a Partner Portal.

Product overview

FABSCRAP is a nonprofit textile recycling and reuse organization operating primarily in New York City and Philadelphia. The core offering is the Fabric Recycling Program, which collects pre-consumer textile waste from fashion, interior design, and entertainment brands, diverting materials for either reuse through the Fabric Reuse Room and Online Store or downcycling into shoddy insulation. Supporting products include volunteer sorting sessions, educational presentations and tours, corporate partnerships and volunteering programs, and the FAB Affiliate Program for online store referrals. The Smarter Swatches initiative provides industry assessment tools for evaluating fabric header environmental impact. Revenue is supplemented through fabric sales, service fees ($2/lb for individual recycling), and charitable donations including one-time gifts and recurring monthly 'FAB Friends' donations. FABSCRAP partners with over 800 fashion and interior design brands and has diverted over 2.2 million pounds of textiles from landfill since its 2016 founding.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fabric Recycling Program A commercial textile recycling service that collects pre-consumer fabric waste (scraps, headers, swatches, yardage, and bolts) from fashion, interior design, and entertainment brands in NYC and Philadelphia, diverting materials from landfills for reuse or downcycling into shoddy insulation. Brand partners schedule pickups through a Partner Portal and receive transparent impact tracking.
• Fabric Reuse Room & Online Store A retail channel selling recovered fabric scraps, yardage, leather hides, yarn cones, trim, and shoddy (downcycled fiber) at thrift-store pricing, available in-person at the Brooklyn warehouse Reuse Room (Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm) and through the online store at shopfabscrap.org. Wholesale pricing is available for discounted bulk purchases, and virtual appointments can be scheduled for larger custom orders.
• Smarter Swatches Program An assessment tool featuring the proprietary Smart Swatch Scorecard for evaluating the environmental impact of fabric headers (estimated to comprise 75% of pre-consumer textile waste). Provides brands, textile mills, and industry stakeholders with a guide for reducing textile sampling waste through header redesign and low-impact material choices.
• Volunteer Sorting Program Hands-on volunteer sessions at the Brooklyn warehouse where participants sort and deconstruct fabrics for recycling and reuse. Volunteers receive 5 pounds of free fabric as a thank-you gift, and the program supports manual sorting of approximately 2,000 pounds of fabric each week.
• Educational Presentations, Tours & Fabric Pop-ups Digital and in-person educational presentations, warehouse tours, guest lectures, and fabric pop-up sales for classrooms, workplaces, and community organizations, covering textile recycling, sustainability policy, and fashion circularity. Pop-ups bring curated fabric selections to schools and community groups.
• Fabric Gift Program Annual gifting of up to 15 lbs of fabric, clothing samples, scraps, cuttings, trim, and buttons to nonprofits, mutual aid groups, and K-12 education programs for charitable projects. Shipping is available for an average fee of $15-$25. Does not include leather skins, yarn cones, or yardage priced $10+/yd.

Quantifiable outcome

• Diverted 2.2 million+ pounds of textiles from landfill for reuse or recycling
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025NYSP2I provided funding through their Community Grants Program to support the Smarter Swatches project, including the Smart Swatch Scorecard and comprehensive research on textile sampling waste. NYSP2I gives New York State businesses, communities, and nonprofits practical tools for sustainability.
• IENYCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the Smarter Swatches report: 'Smarter Swatches: A Guide to Reducing Textile Sampling Waste' published jointly by FABSCRAP and IENYC.
• ReclyptcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFABSCRAP and Reclypt announced a merger to expand textile recycling capabilities and reach. This partnership was announced as a press release on the FABSCRAP website.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• thredUP: thredUP is an online resale platform for second-hand apparel with its own Resale-as-a-Service offering for brands. It overlaps with FABSCRAP's fabric and material resale operations through its branded resale partnerships and shares the broader circular-fashion customer base.
• Patagonia Worn Wear: Patagonia's Worn Wear program repairs, resells, and recycles used Patagonia garments. As a brand-owned circularity initiative, it represents an emerging model of textile recycling and resale that intersects with FABSCRAP's reuse and resale activities, particularly in marketing circular fashion to consumers.
• For Days: For Days operated a circular fashion take-back and recycling subscription service for consumers before pivoting to wholesale. It overlaps with FABSCRAP's textile recycling mission and pre-consumer waste handling by demonstrating alternative circular business models in apparel.
• Eileen Fisher Renew: Eileen Fisher Renew is the take-back and resale program run by Eileen Fisher Inc. for its own branded garments. It represents a brand-owned vertical approach to textile reuse that competes with FABSCRAP-style service providers for sustainability-focused customers and demonstrates alternative in-house recycling models.

Broad incumbents

• I:CO (I:Collect): I:CO is a global textile recycling and reuse company that operates large-scale collection, sorting, and recycling infrastructure for fashion brands worldwide. It is a broader incumbent offering comprehensive take-back programs that compete with FABSCRAP for enterprise brand contracts but at significantly larger geographic and operational scale.
• Goodwill / Salvation Army Textile Reuse: Goodwill and the Salvation Army operate large-scale donation-based textile collection and resale networks nationally. While primarily post-consumer focused, they represent broad incumbent players in the textile reuse ecosystem that overlap with FABSCRAP's mission and compete for donor fabric and consumer reuse demand.

Direct peers

• Helpsy: Helpsy is a commercial textile recycling service collecting clothing and textiles from brands and consumers across the US. It directly competes with FABSCRAP in the pre-consumer textile recycling category, serving similar fashion brand customers with comparable pickup-based services.
• Wearable Collections: Wearable Collections is a NYC-based textile reuse and recycling service collecting used clothing and textiles from businesses and consumers. It overlaps directly with FABSCRAP in the NYC metropolitan textile collection market and targets similar fashion brand and institutional customers.

Others

• Sewing & Craft Retailers (e.g., JOANN): JOANN and similar fabric/sewing retailers sell piece goods and notions to the same makers, students, and crafters that purchase from FABSCRAP's online and warehouse retail operations. They represent adjacent retail competition for the consumer side of FABSCRAP's business.
• Trove/Recurate: Trove (now part of Recurate) and Recurate provide white-label branded resale technology platforms for apparel brands. They are ecosystem enablers in the textile reuse space that complement or compete with FABSCRAP's brand partnership offerings by providing tech infrastructure for circularity programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fab_scrap

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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