Description
‘Beach Clean’ Recycled slim-fit T-shirt
Product: 100% RECYCLED Women’s slim fit T-shirt
Composition: 60% recycled pre-consumer organic cotton, 40% recycled post-consumer polyester
Screen printed design: ‘Beach Clean’ design hand screen printed with water based ink
This design is inspired by the voluntary work we do to help clean up our beaches and coastline and encourage everyone to reduce their consumption of single use plastic.
This is the ‘Salvage’ T-shirt range
Salvaged waste cuttings from organic cotton clothing is shredded and blended with recycled plastic bottles then turned into T-shirts.
“They said I was trash but now I’m fashionable”
Social responsibility
We all have a right to a safe and healthy work environment, a living wage, a legally binding contract. We all have a right to be free from discrimination and harassment, to join – or not to join – a labour union, to choose our work freely. We all have a right to fair and reasonable working hours. And our children have a right to go to school.
Our T-shirt supplier has adopted a robust policy with regard to the following minimum social responsibility criteria:
- No use of child labour
- No use of forced labour
- Safe and healthy working conditions
- Legal labour contracts
- Payment of living wage
- Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
- No discrimination against employees
- No excessive hours of work
Sustainable manufacturing
Sustainable manufacturing is the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Sustainable manufacturing also enhances employee, community, and product safety.
Our supplier recognises that garment manufacturing is one of the most environmentally damaging and harmful industrial sectors on the planet, and takes decisive and often pioneering steps towards addressing the many negative impacts. Starting with the sourcing of raw materials, the company ensures full traceability of all fibres, choosing low impact cotton, Tencel® Lyocel, bamboo viscose and recycled polyester in their ranges, 100% certified organic cotton in the EarthPositive® range, and recycled organic cotton blended with recycled polyester in the Salvage® range.
Our supplier has been a vivid supporter of many high profile campaigns, including the Clean Cotton Campaign, Pick Your Cotton Carefully, and has been working with the Environmental Justice Foundation and the Pesticide Action Network for many years. Our supplier is an active contributor to the International Working Group on the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). The Company is certified under the Global Organic Textile Standard and the Global Recycle Standard.
Yarns and fabrics
Our supplier controls the spinning process of almost seventy percent of all the yarns used in production as part of its vertically-integrated manufacturing structure, with the remainder being carefully sourced externally. All the yarns used by the company are fully combed and ring spun.
The quality of yarns and fabrics is the foundation to delivering the highest quality garments.All the fabrics are knitted at our supplier’s in-house facilities, and dyed with GOTS approved chemicals, using low-water and controlled waste discharge processes, certified to OekoTex 100 Class I standard and conforming to REACH.
Organic certified fabrics are dyed in our supplier’s zero-discharge dyehouse, where all the water is recycled in a closed-loop system.
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