The pile of old t-shirt scraps was driving Ross Lohr nuts. It was 2016, and Lohr’s company, Project Repat, had a waste problem that was reaching a critical mass. The Cambridge, MA-based company, which ...

When Ross Lohr and Nathan Rothstein founded Project Repat in February 2012, they wanted to prevent retailers and consumers alike from sending used T-shirts to landfills to go to waste. Six years later ...

Not a day goes by pilot Tim Campbell doesn’t think about his father, a war veteran, family man, and partial to a certain kind ...

For many people, old t-shirts are like trophies, says Nathan Rothstein. Some shirts remind them of a race they won, an intramural sport they took part in, or possibly a charity event they contributed ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Boston-based Project Repat, a company that turns old T ...

A Boston company that turns people’s T-shirts into quilts is suing its former video production firm in U.S. District Court, claiming it used its trade secrets to start a rival T-shirt quilt maker.

-- Who can argue about the idea of being a patriot at this time of year (or any time of year, for that matter)? -- Those looking for jobs in the fashion industry have a new resource courtesy of ...

There is a way to turn that mountain of unused t-shirts accumulated through various travels into something you will cherish and actually use. Project Repat will take your T-shirts and turn them into ...

Employees: Founders are both full time and they have one, part-time employee. The pitch: We buy far more T-shirts in the U.S. than we’ll ever need, and many of those shirts wind up donated to ...

Nathan Rothstein's first venture into the T-shirt recycling business flopped. The 29-year-old tried to take old shirts with college logos and repurpose them into tote bags and scarves. No one was ...