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Anact Hosts Local Event to Activate the Community

Anact is an activist brand that just happens to make sustainable towels out of hemp and organic cotton. They use their sales to give back to the local community by hosting Act Up events. Act Up events are locally held events at Anact’s HQ in Jacksonville, FL. These events feature activists and changemakers addressing social and environmental...

FashionPress Release

Conscious Gifting

The Holiday Season is upon us, which means gift shopping has begun. With the holiday season usually comes excessive consumption. Did you know, 80% of Black Friday- purchased goods, cloth, and plastic packaging ends up in a landfill, incinerated, or low quality recycling. This year we challenge you to give essential presents so you can be present...

FashionPress Release

Closing the loop

Did you know that 84% of garments end up in landfill and can take up to 200 years to decompose which contributes to the climate crisis? One of the main reasons this is happening is due to the textile industry designing linearly and not circularly. What does that mean exactly? It means that the industry is not designing with end of life in mind....

Fashion Partner Content

How Anact is Using Hemp to Disrupt the Textile Industry

We at Anact believe that the future is bright! But we also believe in investing in our future and taking the climate crisis seriously. One way we are doing this is through reintroducing hemp to our supply chain as a viable alternative to synthetic fibers. Hemp has a long history of use in many areas including textiles. Unfortunately, hemp became...

BusinessPartner Content

Anact: An Activist Brand That Just So Happens to Make Your Favorite Hemp-Based Towel

Anact is an activist brand making sustainable towels out of hemp and organic cotton. Anact was founded in 2018 by Brianna Kilcullen, a veteran of the apparel industry who ran sustainability programs at Under Armour and prAna, a subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear. Anact was successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2019 and launched online during the...