PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

Project Plan B knew that the issue that could arise from a snood would be the possible contamination of the fabric from hands, touching the fabric to put on, adjust, or remove the snood. Their response was to add a treatment to the fabric to stop the risk of infection through the hands.

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

Working with an internationally renowned fabric treatment company, Project Plan B have ensured their snoods are protected with anti-viral treatments necessary to defeat bacteria and viruses, including coronaviruses. The malleable nature of the snood also largely reduces the need to touch and adjust the product, decreasing the possibility of contracting the virus.

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

This innovative technology has been tested successfully against the virus that causes Covid-19. After treatment the fabric is resistant to harmful microbes and viruses.

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

Importantly once the snood has reached end of life, Project Plan B will take the snood back to recycle it and ensure a cyclical life span that doesn’t endanger the planet. Everything Project Plan B do is designed to be recycled.

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

“When the Coronavirus pandemic started, we immediately wanted to know how we could help. We didn’t want to disrupt existing supply chains that were equipping the NHS with medical masks, but focused our attention on the essential workers who are still potentially exposing themselves daily to virus. We were especially concerned that in this rush to supply - the environment was being ignored,” Tim Cross, Director of Project Plan B, said in a press release.

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

We completely understand that during a time of crisis we have to act quickly to protect lives. However, it is surely incumbent upon us as designers and product developers to think about the products end of working life. At Project Plan B we believe you must design everything to be recycled at end of life so that you can use those fabrics, so rich in resources again and again. The textile world needs to think in a circular way and build in sustainability to their design. Our face covering is made from recycled polyester and can be recycled back into usable polyester at end of life, with built in circularity, to be used again and again.”

 

PCIAW and Project Plan B have joined forces to bring an anti-viral, sustainable snood to market, to protect workers and commuters. Plymouth company Project Plan B produces the face covering entirely in the UK, with a Leicester-based manufacturer. They are members of Milton Keynes based PCIAW (Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide).#

“PCIAW is the first and only worldwide organisation developed to represent the global companies of the professional clothing industry, we encompass the entire supply chain from buyers, suppliers, manufacturers,” PCIAW CEO and founder, Yvette Ashby said.