OEcotextiles

Indulgent yet responsible fabrics

Politically motivated

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

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 of October 28, 2017.  It strikes a cord, since we founded Two Sisters Ecotextiles and O Ecotextiles to …

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Biodegradeable or compostable?

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

There is no legal definition of “biodegradable,” so the term has been used loosely by some manufacturers.  The American Society for Testing and Materials defines the term as “a degradation caused by biological activity, especially by enzymatic action, leading to a significant change in the chemical structure of the material.” The Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) …

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