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Better than cotton
Copyright (c) 2009 Virginia Ginsburg
As the tissue-quarter of firms increasingly source and friendly offer the environment, people have begun to rethink their options to buy fabrics. In the past, comfort and style were the key consideration in the purchase of fabric. Today tissue effects on Mother Earth must be in inches
Tissue is generally considered the environment (or green) if you have the following characteristics:
>> Minimum chemical and / or use pesticides on raw materials
> Planting Practices> and sustainable agriculture
>> A certification of producers and manufacturers operations environment
>> The environment of the animal-business practices
>> Production Fabric by maintaining existing business practices
green tissues are not only the environment but also for consumers. Consider this list of choices search in green tissue:
1. Bamboo – Woven bamboo, which is extremely soft and smooth and comfortable luxury and 100% biodegradable.
2. Hemp – Hemp fibers are longer, more durable and more absorbent than cotton fibers. This plant has been cultivated for fiber and production food for centuries.
3. Organic Cotton – Organic cotton is produced from cotton grown without pesticides. Organic cotton is more expensive to produce than conventionally produced cotton.
4. Jute – Jute is known that the painting in North America. There is the natural fiber prices competitive in the market today. It works in the amount of cotton production.
5. Ingeo – Ingeo is a trademark of a synthetic fiber made from corn.
6. Web Hesse – Hesse cloth or fabric used is raw jute or hemp.
7. recycled polyester – recycled polyester fabric Polyester is made from used items such as clothing.
8. Tencel ® – Tencel ® is a registered trademark of Lenzing lyocell fibers. Tencel is made from pulp wood pulp and is sweet as silk, strong as polyester, cool as linen, warm as wool and as absorbent as cotton.
9. Ramie – Woven fabrics of ramie is one of the oldest textiles back to be used as a rag on the packaging of the Egyptian mummies. It is also known for its durability eight times stronger cotton and 7 times more of silk. Ramie is resistant to bacteria, alkalis, mildew and insects.
10. Organic wool – organic wool produced without artificial hormones and pesticides. Most organic wool products available on the market today are the clothes and accessories for babies. Production organic wool is more expensive than other organic sources due to increased operating costs and certification.
11. Organic Linen – organic towels Retrieved from flax plants grown without the use of harmful fertilizers and pesticides.
12. Fortrel EcoSpun – Made from 100% plastic bottles recycling container. Ecospun Fortrel is known for its durability, color fastness and withdrawal without qualities. This fabric is developed in the U.S. by Wellmann Inc.
13. Silk Milk – originally Cyran made by a Chinese company, this silk is made from milk. However, due to the high cost of milk, that option never gained popularity in fabric textile industry.
14. I Silk – SoySilk is a trademark owned by South West Trading Company which produces the silk known as the linen cloth and has a silky smooth sheen others.
15. Nettle fiber – from the nettle of weeds. It has characteristics of natural repellents and the Butterfly after the First World War as a child substitute for cotton.
16. spider – Researchers have tried to remove tissue webs. However, until this current research on tissue type did not produce significant results.
Whatever the type of fabric you choose for your clothing and household textiles, always make sure source, in addition to examining their impact on the environment during production, also consider resources for transportation to their country of origin.
About the Author
Virginia Ginsburg writes about sustainable products, green living, and her quest for a socially-conscious lifestyle. She is founder of Green Baby Gifts (http://www.greenbabygiftsonline.com), which offers beautifully-wrapped baby gifts made of bamboo fiber and packaged in completely recycled and recyclable packaging.
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