Sustainable apparel brand Paka is celebrating its 10 th anniversary with an ambitious goal to source nearly all its raw material from natural and plant-based fibers by the end of the decade.
In a post on the company’s website outlining its next chapter, CEO and founder Kris Cody said it is targeting more than 90 percent of the fibers it uses to be either natural or plant-derived by 2035.
To do so, the B Corp-certified company will reduce its use of synthetic materials while increasing its use of other natural and plant-derived fibers such as regenerative pima cotton and hemp, according to a separate press statement.
This marks the latest evolution of a company whose identity is deeply rooted in alpaca wool , grown in the Andes Mountains in Peru by alpaca farmers called alpaqueros for thousands of years.…