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Bamboo The Next Best Thing in Ethical Clothing

February 11, 2025 - February 11, 2025   


If you’re looking for the next best thing in Eco-friendly trade and fair-trade, it’s bamboo.

Just what is bamboo? It’s renewable and sustainable, growing up for 1 foot every day on farmland, being harvested in 3 years. As a naturally resistant material to bacteria and microbes means no pesticides or chemicals furthering its potent eco image securing 100% organic status, and when made into clothes it’s as soft as cashmere. It’s natural breathing and wicking properties means it’s cool in summer and warm in winter.

Bamboo is definitely eco-friendly and companies and designers are beginning to use bamboo properties to their advantage while enhancing their reputation of fair-trade and enticing customers to further buy their collections as people are being more mindful of the environment and are aware of exploitation in sweat-shops and farmer workers in poorer third-world countries.

New York based ‘Panda Snack’ claimed that they were the first company to take Bamboo and turn them into a silky soft shirts and polo shirts, and revealed their desire to grow a wider range of Bamboo products such as furniture, sheets, towels and loungewear.

Here in the UK, ‘Bam’ bamboo clothing makes a fantastic range of naturally anti-bacterial sports t-shirts for men and women using the naturally anti-bacterial and deodorization property of the ever growingly popular Bamboo. ‘Bam’ even say that for every shirt you buy, on your behalf they will plant a tree in the South American rainforest, meaning purchasing one Bam T-shirt – one tree – will account for the absorption of 367kg of carbon dioxide!

 




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