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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — We’ve all got them, old tee shirts that we will never wear again but we just can’t bring ourselves to get rid of. Whether they hold sentimental value, or you just love the look of them, ...

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Project Repat, a Cambridge-based startup that turns old T-shirts into quilts, is expecting more than $2 million in revenue this year, up from $1 million in 2013 ...

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 ...