Discarded garments and textile waste are collected through communities, RWAs, awareness drives, and local recovery systems so usable fabric can be identified before it becomes landfill.
Initiative summary
Old clothes get a new life.
Punarsutra transforms post-consumer fabric waste into meaningful, high-value products by rewriting the lifecycle of textiles through collection, sorting, design, sustainability, and community-driven craftsmanship.
The Textile Waste Management Project brings together the Textile Committee, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, SBI Foundation, SBI Conserw, and Tisser Artisans Trust to create a practical circular system.
Usable fabric is cleaned, sorted, designed, and upcycled into practical handcrafted products such as bags, folders, decor pieces, accessories, rakhis, and gifting items.
Every purchase supports women artisans, local skill development, home-based production opportunities, and a stronger circular textile ecosystem in Navi Mumbai.
Circular flow
Collection, traceability, and second life.
Punarsutra ensures old clothes are not wasted. The circular process covers collection, transportation, sanitization, sorting, upcycling, resale, and recycling.
Digital data through KOSHA integration supports traceability and strengthens confidence in the journey from donated fabric to finished product.
CollectionRWAs and communities support collection of old clothes and textiles.
SortingMaterial is segregated for upcycle, resale, recycle, or other circular routes.
UpcycleWomen artisans redesign usable material into new products.
New productThe final catalogue product carries environmental and livelihood value.
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