Three Cheers for Eco Gear!

I’ve featured ecological t-shirt sites at Buy Tees before, but Canadian-based Eco-Gear.ca has to be the most ethical and ecologically aware t-shirt manufacturer and printer in the world. I was going to wait until I’d collated a few more sources for organic t-shirt suppliers/printers because I’ve had a few requests for more lists, but I couldn’t let this wait.

Here’s a quick rundown of Ecogear’s amazing ethical and environmental credentials:

- recycled materials in pre-consumer cotton clippings and recycled water bottles( 65% cotton and 35% recycled PET )
- least water and energy needed to produce the fabric
- no bleach or dyes used. Their colours are from the first life cotton clippings.
- no land use for agriculture or need for deforestation
- for their printing processes, instead of being back end conscious and filtering all wastes, they are front end conscious and only use dyes that are either organic or water based.No PVC, pthalates or APEOs.

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Vote Green at District Cotton’s Eco T-Shirt Competition!

As promised this is my submission to DistrictCotton.com’s Shoot Out t-shirt design competition. I’ve posted a review of DC here, and was so impressed with their stance on ethical business I thought I’d make a contribution, and this is it. The theme for the contest is “Big City” and DC are donating 10% of all profits from the winning t-shirt (as with all their tees) to a great charity, in this case Trees Not Trash.

So help me out and vote for my t-shirt design!

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Don’t Recycle - Teecycle!

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TeeCycle.org - Recycle Your Tees!

If you’ve read my post Fair Trade Eco T-Shirts - A Designer’s Dilemma you’ll already know my opinions on the terrible reputation of the t-shirt trade be it ecology or worker’s rights, (as a point of interest, Andy Lunt of T-Shirt & Sons never did get back to my email. Not surprising really, by using Spreadshirt and other services I am helping pollute the planet. Andy should give us the option to do better I say). Read more