ninawa zero-waste clothes

Ninawa Zero-Waste Clothes, owned by Aelen Unan, is a sustainable upcycler business. Founded in 2019 while experiencing homelessness and living in a women’s shelter, Ninawa Zero-Waste Clothes upcycles unwanted, trashed textiles such as curtains, sheets, tablecloths, and leftover fabric or clothes into eco-friendly tote bags, handmade aprons, artistic tea towels, napkins, unique table runners, and other sustainable kitchen accessories. Ninawa Zero-Waste Clothes’ mission is to reduce the use of plastic bags by replacing them with ecofriendly upcycled tote bags and to reduce the waste of textiles material that is sent to landfill by giving it new life through the upcycling process. Ninawa Zero-Waste Clothes was awarded one year of full-time, rent-free space as a winner of the Boston Public Market Entrepreneurship Forum Incubator Competition, powered by Citizens.