Don’t freak out, but you can now buy recycled Champion Leeds uni sweatshirts

theApparel told The Tab Leeds: “This generation of students have rightly noted the dangers of climate change and the necessity for each one of us to do our part in helping mitigate the climate crisis. In June 2020, the Students Organising for Sustainability group conducted wide reaching research that concluded that 88 per cent of students are ‘fairly or very concerned about climate change’.

“The popularity of Depop and thrift shops amongst the student population has shown that people care about recycling clothes and not funnelling money into large corporations.

“We have secured a supply of Champion’s eco sweatshirts which are made from 50 per cent recycled polyester made out of recycled plastic bottles. We also keep packaging to an absolute minimal and the little packaging we do use is made entirely from recycled materials. Also, we only order stock to order which means that dirty carbon trucks don’t need to deliver goods that we don’t need!”

How can you get involved?

Anyone that buys a sweatshirt can become a theApparel Ambassador, allowing you to get a referral code to dish out to your friends and peers to use on the website which gives them £3 off their order. When someone buys a sweatshirt using your code, you’ll get 10 per cent commission per sale, which means the more your mates use it, the more money you make.

theApparel also told The Tab Leeds they’re open to making society merch: “If you’re a committee member for a sports club/society at uni and would like some customised, stylish and sustainable merch get in touch”.

You can email them at [email protected]. You can shop online at www.theApparel.co.uk and you can support them by following their Instagram.