Eco-Friendly

Storm Creek Transitions All Products to Eco-Made
October 14, 2021 at 9:51 am

Storm Creek, Eagan, Minn., announced this week that it has successfully reached its goal to transition all of its products to eco-made. Through its sustainable sourcing practices, every product in production is now being made with recycled fabrics and insulation from post-consumer waste, such as plastic bottles and sustainable components, and/or is Bluesign or Oeko-Tex…

Coloreel's New Embroidery Thread Is Made From 100% Recycled Plastic Bottles
September 29, 2021 at 9:37 am

Coloreel, a Swedish textile innovation brand with a proprietary technology for embroidery enabling high-quality coloring of textile thread on demand, announced that it will begin offering 100% recycled polyester threads to be used with its instant thread coloring technologies...

PopSockets & TerraCycle Partner to Create FREE Recycling Program
September 27, 2021 at 12:25 pm

TerraCycle, a social enterprise on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste, offers a range of national, easy-to-use recycling platforms allowing everyone to #RecycleEverything. You may have already seen TerraCycle in action at your local grocery store with their Zero Waste Box platform that allows you to drop off your TerraCycle approved waste where…

Charles River Apparel Releases New Outerwear Made From Recycled Polyester
September 15, 2021 at 12:14 pm

Charles River Apparel, Sharon, Mass., has introduced two new outerwear styles that reflect its commitment to developing sustainable products: the Lithium Quilted Hooded Parka for women and Lithium Quilted Hooded Jacket for men, both made of 100% recycled polyester, an eco-friendly fabric made using the yarn of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. PET is a…

This Apparel Company Is Turning Air Pollution Into Screen Printing Ink
September 15, 2021 at 10:50 am

Pangaia, the apparel brand, has taken the sustainable sweatshirt to new heights by using screen printing ink made from air pollution. The stylish comfortwear line already uses minimal ink for small logos on its products. And what little ink it does use is made from turning carbon emissions into what the company calls “Air-Ink"...

Fluid Branding's Miles Lovegrove and Kyle Scott on 'A Tree With Every Order,' Reimagining Sustainability in Promo
September 8, 2021 at 12:34 pm

Fluid Branding wants to plant one million trees. The distributor recently launched its "A Tree With Every Order" program, an initiative that reimagines the way promo businesses can work toward a more sustainable and socially responsible industry. Fluid's Miles Lovegrove and Kyle Scott joined the show to tell us how it works, why it matters and why it's smart business...

The Internet Is Freaking Out About the 'Cotton Tote Crisis' (But Should It Be?)
September 2, 2021 at 1:24 pm

The New York Times recently published a story that included some alarming statistics about how tote bags might not be the eco-friendly cheat code that some people think they are. And, of course, most of Twitter was talking about it. But is the "Cotton Tote Crisis" based on misinterpreted data?...

alphabroder | Prime Line Launches Green Team Initiative
September 1, 2021 at 12:55 pm

alphabroder | Prime Line announced the launch of its Green Team Initiative as the company journeys down a new path with the ultimate goal of creating an environmental, social and governance corporate platform that is both meaningful and measurable...

This $110 Black T-shirt Is Made With Algae-Based Dye
August 4, 2021 at 12:02 pm

UK-based clothing designer Vollebak, which bills itself as making "clothes for the future," created a black T-shirt dyed with algae, which naturally produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide. Many black dyes are made with a material called carbon black, which is produced by burning petroleum to create a powder used in pigments...