OEcotextiles

Indulgent yet responsible fabrics

What are we doing to the children?

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Americans live in one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet American children are less likely to live to age 5 than children in comparable nations – and I was shocked to find that America has the highest infant mortality rate in the industrialized world.[1] Our children are especially vulnerable to the presence of …

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Toxic textiles by Walt Disney

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

The Walt Disney Corporation,  in a letter to Greenpeace in 2003, said that “the Walt Disney Company is always concerned with quality and safety”. Greenpeace decided to test that statement, so – as part of their campaign to show how dangerous chemicals are out of control, turning up in house dust, in household products, food, …

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