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Thread secures $300,000 in funding for recycled canvas backpack

29/08/2018

Responsible manufacturer Thread, which makes fabric from plastic bottles collected from coastal areas in Haiti and Honduras, recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter platform for a new canvas backpack. Needles to say, the response was positive. The company hit its initial funding target of $45,000 in just seven hours. The...

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