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Global Recycle Standard update

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Textile Exchange, which administers the new Global Recycle Standard, has introduced what it says is a “minor but important” change in GRS version 2.1, according to the April/May 2012 issue of Ecotextile News.  (If you’re wondering what the Global Recycle Standard is all about, please see our blog post on the subject:  click here .) The …

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      Let’s look at just three areas in which your fabric choice impacts you directly: 1.      What are residual chemicals in the fabrics doing to you and the planet? 2.      What are the process chemicals expelled in treatment water  doing to us? 3.      Why do certain fiber choices accelerate climate change? RESIDUAL CHEMICALS …

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