User:

wanaderer

Date:

Oct 26, 2008 14:16

With fashions as they are now, knitting and crocheting are coming back into popularity. Many of the yarn companies are now producing natural yarns again from various wools, cottons, bamboos, hemps and other renewable resources. A simple search online can show a long list of websites on yarns and resources to learning what and how to make anything.

Also going to second hand shops you can pick up clothing that's knitted and unravel it to reuse the yarns. This is one way to get a unique item why recycling something that might not be ever worn again.

Personally I try not to shop at stores that assume you want plastic bags. People don't realize how much they spend on their products to have those bags handed out like that only to toss them into the landfill or spending time, effort, and resources that aren't needed to recycle these plastic bags.

User:

Tony1109

Date:

Oct 27, 2008 23:44

While I don't exactly avoid stores that assume you want plastic bags (that would be absolutely hypocritical of me as I work for a company that forces you to offer plastic bags) I tend to notice that most clothing stores these days hand out either biodegradable paper bags or they give you a rather chiq-looking bag that gets the consumer to want to reuse the bag. Granted, this doesn't completely eliminate the problem of a plastic overload so-to-speak, but it is a huge step forward. The main problem with plastic bags is the fact that we as consumers tend not to use them after we take them home and take our products out of the bag.

But in response to your idea on ecological clothes, I find that while it won't be the most widely accepted change for most people, it is a very optimistic and positive way of moving forward. With the ever-changing trends in fashion today, most of our wardrobe is outdated by the time we hang it up in our closets. With that said, what's the point of buying clothing made of materials that we cannot properly dispose of. With the usage of eco-friendly materials, not only do our clothes last longer, but they are better for the environment and if we do choose to attempt to keep up with fashion (in a futile attempt might I add), buying eco-friendly clothes benefits both the environment and the consumer; the environment isn't harmed by the addition of clothes produced in toxic factories and the consumer can still manage to look fashionably relevant.

User:

Adamhanee

Date:

Sep 3, 2009 04:56

Thanks for sharing such a nice information
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User:

Paul Fletcher

Date:

Sep 7, 2009 15:03

Thanks Tony! Some great advice and valuable information. You mentioned staying in fasion has become a futile effort. Fear not! The majority of "new" fasions these days are cheap reproductions of many old fasions. I have a great deal of fun finding old clothing in second hand stores and passing it off as new. I save money, the environment and stay fasionable. Good Luck!