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O Ecotextiles

@Oecotextiles

Two sisters, Patty Grossman and Leigh Anne Van Dusen, started O Ecotextiles to sell luscious fabrics that would not harm you or your home planet.

 Seattle, Washington
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Joined September 2010
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Why your choice of fabric for facemasks makes a difference. oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
Why your choice of fabric for facemasks makes a difference

Why your choice of fabric for facemasks makes a difference

Facemask fabric safety and efficacy from the perspective of a textiles company.

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DIY Face Masks – Update! oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
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DIY Face Masks oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
DIY Face Masks

DIY Face Masks

Hello All; We have not been posting regularly for the last year, but we will be prioritizing posting again now. Numerous workrooms have contacted us to ask questions about making face masks – for m…

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How China’s ban on importing waste has impacted the world’s recycling systems oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
How China’s ban on importing waste has impacted the world’s recycling systems

How China’s ban on importing waste has impacted the world’s recycling systems

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 (Katz, Cheryl, “Piling Up: How China’s Ban in Importing Waste has Stalled Global Recycling”, Yale School of Forestry an…

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Microfiber pollution oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
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Textile Industry and Climate Change oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

Textile Industry and Climate Change

“I believe we stand at a turning point in history. For the first time, humans are no longer just affected by weather cycles, we are affecting those cycles—and suffering the consequences of doing so…

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Obesogens oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
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FabricsellerA oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

FabricsellerA

A company that sells fabric on line has a post about why they don’t offer Oeko-Tex certification.  Their post is woefully incorrect. We do not name the company, but call it FabricsellerA. Their pos…

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What is the benefit of PLA? oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

What is the benefit of PLA?

Much of this article came from the Smithsonian Magazine written by Elizabeth Royte – to whom we owe our gratitude. Near Blair, Nebraska is the largest lactic acid plant in the world.  Into one end …

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Chemicals used in textile products oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

Chemicals used in textile products

No parent would want toxic materials in their children’s clothing. Yet according to a new Greenpeace study,[1] a range of hazardous chemicals is being used in the production of kids̵…

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On Microfibers oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

On Microfibers

 Microfibers are, as the name implies, synthetic fibers that are far smaller in diameter than “typical fibers.” As an example, they are 100 times finer than a human hair, one-third of the diameter …

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What is Sensuede? oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

What is Sensuede?

Sensuede is, according to its website, an elegant, supple, high performance textile made with recycled fibers. But Sensuede is not a fabric we’d be excited about selling, and let us tell you why:  …

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Why are “endocrine disruptors” a concern? oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
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Nichlos Kristof gets it! oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

Nichlos Kristof gets it!

Nicholas Kristof had an editorial in the New York Times on February 25, 2018. This is a reproduction of his editorial:  Our bodies are full of poisons from products we use every day. I know – …

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Why does the Cape Town water crisis impact the textile industry? oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

Why does the Cape Town water crisis impact the textile industry?

This blog post was taken largely from Leon Kaye’s article in The Guardian newspaper. Day zero for the Cape Town water crisis is predicted to fall on May 11, 2018, according to an analysis of curren…

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Plastics recycling: you’re doing it wrong. And so is everybody else. oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
Plastics recycling: you’re doing it wrong. And so is everybody else.

Plastics recycling: you’re doing it wrong. And so is everybody else.

In August 2014, Russell Klein wrote an article which was published in TriplePundit; much of the information in this post was taken from that article.  For the past 25 years, our modest national eff…

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Politically motivated oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…

Politically motivated

Happy 2018!  I wish you all the best in the coming year. I have tried to keep politics out of our blog posts, but I couldn’t resist Nicholas Kristof recent op-ed piece in the New York Times o…

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Tips on how to avoid chemicals oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
Microplastics found in tap water oecotextiles.wordpress.com/2…
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