To help utilise the reuse of uniforms by short-term workers, the Department of Conservation (DoC) launched a “pre-loved” uniform initiative in 2019. To help grow the initiative, DoC partnered with us in 2021 to introduce a pre-loved uniform management programme, SILK. By 2023, it was possible for the DoC team to upload their pre-loved stock onto the SILK database.

All pre-loved stock is warehoused and managed on location at a DoC site in Nelson. Stock levels are managed through stock-takes and data is sent through to us monthly for upload into SILK. Pre-loved garments are available for purchase online by DoC staff, and once ordered, are shipped out from the DoC location. New garments ordered by the DoC team are managed separately and processed by us as usual.

Since the implementation of this programme in 2022, a remarkable 10,000 pre-loved garments have been ordered and managed through the SILK platform.