September 1st, 2009
From Green Right Now Reports
School groups, sports teams and others, may want to consider going organic with their group shirts this year.
It’s easier than ever before to take your organization into greener territory. Now organic Ts, ready for imprinting by your group, are available in reasonable prices from more vendors than ever. Edun Live, the company formed by Bono and his wife Ali Hewson, now sells bulk organic cotton Ts made by workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Assisi Garments also produces organic cotton T-shirts and other clothing, all made in Fair Trade shops in India.
One T-shirt we’re fond of is the Anvil organic cotton tee, because we know it to be soft and reasonably priced. Anvil, based in New York with factories in the US South and Central America, also is proactive in this area. The company is trying to help cotton farmers transition to organic practices by developing signature shirts, such as the new AnvilSustainable (shown at left), made of recycled plastic bottles and cotton from farms that are in the midst of going organic. These farmers’ first crops can’t be certified organic until their land has been chemical-free for three years.
Each AnvilSustainable T-shirt is made from the fibers from three 20-oz recycled PET plastic bottles (soda bottles typically) and cotton from transitioning farmers.
This unique shirt will be on display this week at the Magic Market apparel trade show in Las Vegas. (Their booth will be in the North Hall in the Eco section.)
Anvil Knitwear is the largest domestic purchaser of U.S.-grown certified organic cotton and was ranked by the Organic Exchange as being the sixth-largest purchaser of organic cotton worldwide in 2008. Its eco collection includes 15 T-shirts, fleeces and bags made with 100-percent organic cotton. The company also developed the AnvilRecycled tee, which is made with pre-consumer recycled cotton (factory scraps) and is certified “carbon free” by the Carbonfund.org.
Buy Anvil products at BuyAnvil.com for individual t-shirts, or through wholesale distributors for bulk purchases.
