Dress Green

Parent Company / Organisation
Dress Green Limited
Address
Unit C1, 10/F., Tai King Industrial Building, 100-102 King Fuk Street, San Po Kong, KL., H.K.
Website (Official)
https://dressgreen.org/
Website (Online Shop)
https://www.uni-bear.com/
Funding Sources
  • Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund
  • Self-funded/Crowdfunding

Dress Green is a design-driven innovative social enterprise founded in 2021 in Hong Kong, dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the fashion industry through resource recycling, community empowerment, and education. Focusing on recycling second-hand school uniforms, uniforms, and textile waste, Dress Green upcycles these materials into new products. Simultaneously, it creates employment opportunities for vulnerable groups, realizing the three goals of "Reduce Waste, Empower, Educate." Since its establishment, the company has recycled over 3,000 uniforms, produced more than 4,500 upcycled products, and provided over 5,300 work hours for the elderly, housewives, and people in recovery. Dress Green has also won multiple international design awards, such as the DFA Design for Asia Awards and the Singapore Good Design Mark, reducing environmental pressure from textile waste and reshaping the economic participation value of vulnerable groups through social innovation.

Products and Services

The core project of Dress Green is the **UNI Green Education Program**, which collaborates with schools to recycle old school uniforms. A sewing team composed of retired garment workers, housewives, and people in mental health recovery transforms old uniforms into unique gifts like eco-friendly bags and pencil cases. This initiative provides meaningful souvenirs for schools while offering opportunities for the elderly to pass on their sewing skills to people in mental health recovery, enhancing their work skills, thereby obtaining more job opportunities and increasing their income.. Dress Green also conducts workshops to teach students sustainable concepts and handcraft skills, deepening environmental awareness. Their signature product, the **UNI Bear** plush toy, is made from recycled school uniforms and corporate uniforms, becoming a popular souvenir among corporate clients and successfully transforming waste into a brand image carrier. Additionally, Dress Green offers customized services for multinational enterprises, designing upcycled products and organizing team activities to help them achieve ESG goals—for example, hosting online workshops for adidas to promote sustainable fashion.