Cycle of Good Recycled Belt
Product code: 497447
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Product Description
A sustainable belt to add to your collection, made from four layers of recycled inner tube that gives a sleek, smooth look. The handmade vegan belt has a leather look and the popper on the buckle means you can change it easily to suit your look. Cycle for Good collect waste bicycle inner tubes in the UK and then ship it to Malawi where it is skilfully crafted into new products by local artisans.
Cycle for Good is committed to helping to end poverty in one of the poorest countries in the World. The company currently employs 10 Malawian tailors full time who are paid a fair wage for their skilled work. The good wage allows the workers to support their families without any charity donations or handouts. Profits from sales are used to fun childcare, education and non-profit social enterprises in Malawi.
Some of the recycled inner tubes have manufacturers writing or the odd puncture repair patch meaning no two belts will ever be identical and measurements may vary due to the handmade nature of the item.
Width 4cm
Size M fits up to 34” waist
Size L fits up to 40” waist
Handmade in Malawi
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Like the other products in this range this belt is well built and stylish. Choosing a size large however means that it is too big to work effectively which means I will have to make an extra loop hole.
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About Cycle of Good
Cycle of good currently employ 33 Malawian tailors full time, but with ambitions to grow this to a team of 100, they earn a good wage and can support their families, without any charity donations or handouts.
They collect waste inner tubes and other materials saved from landfill, ship them in containers filled with donated bicycles, to Malawi where tailors carefully craft what was waste into useful and beautiful items.
Their ethos is to value people, their team and customers, and treat them fairly.
To value resources by reducing waste, recycling wherever possible and care for our environment by being frugal in the way they work.
Be creative yet practical in their innovations, only making useful products you need, designed to last a lifetime.
Situated in Chilomoni Township, Malawi, the enterprises together employ 500 people who have trained and worked to create businesses that fund a vital children’s centre.
The centre provides early years care and family support to around 2000 vulnerable children at any one time. It’s a quiet revolution of skills building and economic growth in a country with no welfare state: if you don’t earn, you don’t eat.
What’s even better is that many of the enterprises are part of a circular economy; reusing unwanted or waste products from the UK and turning them into profit, shipping by sea in shared container space and using plastic free packaging on all items.
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