Nathan Rothstein

Yes, thanks for having me.

So the recycled plastic bottles are recycled into yarn, and then that yarn is used for the fleece.

And I mean, we're amazed by the process, but it turns into a really soft and comfortable Polartec fleece.

We use the same brand that North Face uses.

It's called Polartec fleece.

Yeah, it's a company reprieved in North Carolina.

And so they've been doing this for, I think, in the past decade.

And it's amazing that we can make a 100% recycled product.

So it's with all of your t-shirts.

And then the fleece that we're using is 100% recycled as well.

Yeah, it's always a funny thing to think about how two guys got into the quilting business.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think, I think we started in the same way that a lot of people start businesses.

You start in one place and then you kind of drift to another where you find market fit.

And so my business partner was in Nairobi and when you're over there, you see all the t-shirts that get donated to the goodwill and then wind up shipped overseas.

And so he was stuck in this traffic jam and it was because a guy had fallen off his rickshaw and that guy was wearing a t-shirt that said, I danced my ass off at Josh's bar mitzvah in 1997.

And so obviously that guy in Nairobi had not gone to Josh's bar mitzvah.

And so we all, we started thinking about the global, uh,

supply chain of t-shirts and how to prevent some of these shirts from getting shipped overseas and maybe winding up in landfills and so we started making tote bags and infinity scarves and we would sell them at local markets and people would come up to us and they would say well what can you do with my t-shirts and after a while they started saying well what can can you turn my t-shirts into a quilt

And we were like, no, we don't really want to do that.