Westing Hotels recycles its sheets in children’s pyjamas

Westin Hotels & Resorts announced the launch of the Rise: Thread Forward project, a charitable and eco-responsible program that collects and converts hotel sheets to make children’s pyjamas.

On the occasion of International Sleep Day today, Friday 16 March 2018, Westin and its partner, the charity Delivering Good, will initially distribute these 100 % recycled pyjamas to 1,500 children in need.

As of April 16,2018, the Westin brand will be selling these pyjamas at $25 on westinstore. com to support the program. Part of the proceeds will go to Delivering Good to continue supporting their efforts to give every child the opportunity to sleep well.

Sleep is one of the foundations of wellness, »said Charles Morin, PhD, President of the World Sleep Society.

But despite this, one third of adults and a majority of children do not get enough sleep. Research suggests that, especially for children, setting up and maintaining a bedtime routine can improve restful sleep, which improves physical and emotional well-being. »

Simply putting on your pyjamas as part of a routine is one way to improve the quality of sleep in your child’s sleep and is a basis for quality sleep over the long term.

As a result of these reflections, Westin called on its partner Clean the World, a world leader in health care, recognized for its hotel soap recycling program in which Westin is already participating, and on Divergent Energy, which provides innovative technologies and solutions, to develop the first collection, treatment and recycling system to reweave bed linen and create a new material that will make it possible to manufacture pyjamas.

In just five months, 50 Westin hotels around the world submitted approximately 14,000 kg of bed linen to be sorted, broken down and rewoven into new materials using the best practices of the textile industry.

The fabric resulting from this manufacturing complies with the US Consumer Product Safety (CPSC) regulations while promising the comfort particularly sought after for children’s pyjamas.

Designed in the Westin brand’s colour palette of mint and linen grey zest, the pyjamas represent a fanciful illustration of a child waking up on the moon with a book. It will be available for children from 3 to 8 years old.