The fashion industry produces 92 million tonnes of textile waste per year. Kids' clothing is one of the biggest culprits, a child uses up to 280 pieces of clothing before age 2, outgrowing sizes every 6 months. We started Bundle to Bundle because we believe kids' clothes should be shared, not wasted.
Our Impact at a Glance
The Life of a Bundle to Bundle Garment
Most kids' clothing follows a straight line: buy, wear for a few weeks, outgrow, landfill. We built a circular system that keeps every garment in use for years, not weeks.
Our Circular Lifecycle
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A single garment in our system serves 8–10 rental families, then gets donated to thrift where it's purchased by at least one more family — and often passed along again. That's 12+ children dressed from one garment, compared to the typical buy-wear-toss cycle where it's just one.
How Long Does a Garment Last?
Extending the life of a garment is the single most impactful thing you can do for the environment. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation found that extending clothing life by just 9 months reduces its carbon, water, and waste footprint by 20–30%. Here's how the models compare:
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Environmental Impact by Subscription Tier
Every tier makes a difference. See the annual environmental impact for each plan:
Based on 5 items/month × 12 months. Each garment saves ~190 gallons of water and ~6.6 lbs of CO₂ vs. buying new.
Based on 10 items/month × 12 months. Our most popular tier — and double the impact of Mini Closet.
Based on 15 items/month × 12 months. The equivalent of saving a bathtub of water every single day.
Based on 20 items/month × 12 months. Our maximum impact tier — almost a tonne of CO₂ prevented annually.
Water Savings: Bulk Cleaning vs. Home Washing
Making a single cotton t-shirt requires 2,700 liters (713 gallons) of water — enough to hydrate one person for nearly 3 years. The fashion industry uses 4% of the world's drinking water and is responsible for 20% of global water pollution.
But water impact doesn't stop at manufacturing — laundry matters too. Here's where our model makes a real difference:
2,700 Liters of Water
Required to produce just ONE cotton t-shirt
When 10 families individually wash their kids' clothes at home, that's 10 separate wash cycles with 10 machines using 10x the water. Our bulk processing cleans the same volume of clothing in a fraction of the water. Every garment that stays in our rotation instead of being replaced saves another 2,700 liters of manufacturing water too.
What Happens When a Garment Retires?
Nothing in our system goes to waste. When a garment has completed its rental lifecycle (after serving 8–10 families), we don't throw it away:
Retired garments in good condition are either donated to local thrift stores or listed at a steep discount on our own online thrift shop — giving another family access to quality kids' clothing at an affordable price.
Thrifted kids' clothes are often handed down within families or between friends — extending the garment's life by at least one more child.
When a garment finally reaches end of life, we work with textile recycling partners to ensure the materials are repurposed — not landfilled. Fabrics get turned into insulation, cleaning rags, or recycled fibers.
The result: zero garments from our system go to landfill. Compare that to the industry average where 85% of discarded clothing ends up in landfills or incinerators.
6 More Ways We're Building Sustainably
We ship bundles in reusable mailer bags that families send back with their returns. No single-use boxes, no excess tissue paper.
Rather than 10 families each ordering individual packages from 10 different retailers, we ship consolidated bundles — reducing total shipping emissions and packaging waste.
We select brands like Mini Rodini and Studio Boheme specifically because their garments are built to withstand dozens of wears and washes. Quality in means more cycles out.
The fashion industry produces 100 billion garments per year — far more than needed. Our rental model means fewer garments need to be manufactured in the first place. Less demand = less production waste.
We carry gender-neutral brands and styles that work for any child — meaning siblings can share the same bundle regardless of gender, maximizing every garment's use.
Through our blog and guides, we help parents make smarter choices — from how many newborn clothes they actually need to building a capsule wardrobe — reducing unnecessary purchases industry-wide.
The Big Picture: Fashion's Environmental Crisis
Every family that rents instead of buys is part of the solution. One Bundle to Bundle subscription can prevent dozens of garments from entering the waste stream each year — and it starts at just $50/month.
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See How Much You'd Save →Sources: Water usage per garment — TriplePundit / WWF. Textile waste stats — The Roundup. Fashion industry emissions — Geneva Environment Network. Extending garment life impact — Ellen MacArthur Foundation via WEF. Commercial washer efficiency — NPS. Children's clothing waste — Global Fashion Agenda. Landfill rate — EPA via The Roundup. CO₂ per garment — ThredUp Resale Report.