Tuesday 3 February 2026: Irina McKenzie is today’s podcast guest. Irina and Erin are the fab faces behind Fabcycle!

The account FABCYCLE (@fabcyclevan) developed as a Vancouver-based social enterprise focused on reducing textile waste by connecting apparel industry deadstock with makers, creators, and people who sew.

Founded in February 2019, the initiative evolved from a waste reduction mission into a community hub for sustainable fashion. 

FABCYCLE is a collection service of textile waste.

Fabcycle works directly with local apparel manufacturers like factories, fashion designers and schools to collect the scraps, off-cuts, deadstock and ends of rolls that are left during the apparel production process and reuse or recycle what they cannot use.

Their mission is to divert textile waste from the landfill by finding creative solutions, promoting the sustainable mindset of waste as a resource.

In February 2019, Fabcycle opened the Textile Waste ReUSE Centre in Vancouver, B.C. 

The purpose of the ReUSE Centre is to provide an open and inclusive physical space for the local creative community to come together and experiment with textile waste.

Fabcycle encourages artists, designers and creative minds of all skill levels, backgrounds, orientations and identities to experiment with scraps and deadstock fabric and come up with innovative and exciting ideas to divert textile waste from the landfill.

They are located in the Sun Wah Centre

Address: From Elevator to your LEFT Sun Wah Building / BC Artscape, 268 Keefer St 4th Floor, Vancouver, BC V6A 1X5, Canada

If their app Sewjo is of interest to you, make sure you click this link.