Quiksilver’s Eco Friendly Winter Clothing
It was nice to read about Quiksilver’s new eco-friendly winter outwear clothing today.
On January 29, Quiksilver will launch a whole new line of eco-friendly winter wear. As mentioned in the article, winter wear has traditionally been the least eco-friendly, so it’s great to see a prominent clothing company like Quiksilver getting stuck into the challenge of providing eco-friendly winter wear.
Here are some eco-friendly fabrics that Quiksilver uses in their clothing:
- Biodegradable TPU Laminate
- Nanosphere Finish
- Organic Cotton
- Hemp
- Non-Toxic Dyes
- Recycled PETs-Recylced Polyester and Soda Bottles
Tags: biodegradable, hemp, organic cotten, quiksilver
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 am
[...] Unfortunately, eco-friendly clothes still tend to be the exception rather than the norm. That’s why it’s so important for us, as consumers, to start searching for clothes made from environmentally friendly fabrics. The more of us that do this, the more commercially viable it will be for companies to use eco-friendly fabrics in their clothing lines. Here’s an example of one major clothing company doing just that. [...]
March 12th, 2008 at 3:56 am
[...] An example of one clothing company using biodegradable TPU is Quiksilver. Quiksilver uses a biodegradable TPU laminate in some of it’s winter clothing line. [...]
January 8th, 2009 at 10:39 am
But if the biodegradable material is bonded to another material like nylon, is it then still biodegradable? Once it is bonded I think it cannot be separated again.
As far as I understood TPU is always the coating on a base material.
Could it be that using the term biodegradable for the clothing where TPE is used is not appropriate?
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Kathi you are absolutely correct in several ways. There is no positive attribute to producing clothing with “biodegradable” TPU. There is no such animal. Currently the only TPU products manufactured that lay claim to the term “biodegradable” are laminates, not coatings. Fabric coated with TPU (both nylon and polyester, among others) are intended for industrial applications, not fashion applications. There will soon be a website to explore and expose this myth, that will also name those companies that used the material irresponsibly or that were duped into doing so. It may well be that the personnel at Quicksilver were misled.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
See the related comments in the “What is biodegradable TPU?” post.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:16 am
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December 1st, 2009 at 5:28 am
Excellent! Thanks for sharing the info. You write really well. Hope to see much more flowing from your end. Cheers
August 11th, 2010 at 4:22 am
Clothing comes in various style, colour and material types like leather, and is always been reinvented they say… I say not though… the same fashions for the god knows how many years have been reinventions of the same styles just slightly modernised for the era they are in, at that particular time.
August 26th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Biodegradable plastic and packaging is a modern necessity for our ever-endangered environment.
Now PLA has been used to line the indoors of Paper Cups in place of the oil based lining additional usually used, create Plastic Cups, Plates, Carrier Bags, Food Packaging and even Nappies.
Eco Pure is our proprietary blend of organic materials that does not modify the base resin to which it is added.
Thanks a lot for your information