Sustainability
Personalised eco-friendly apparel products in organic cotton & recycled cotton
Cotton: A heavy footprint
The majority of what we wear is made with cotton, a crop with a heavy footprint on our environment.
The simple act of conventionally growing and harvesting the one pound of cotton fiber needed to make a T-shirt takes an enormous and devastating toll on the earth’s air, water, and soil that impacts global health.
Also, policies and practices within the cotton industry from crop subsidies to garment sweatshops create poverty and misery that stretch around the world.
Consequently it is important to use less conventional cotton and reduce our impact as much as we can.
Reduce the impact
Besides cotton, textiles can be produced with other fibers that are more sustainable.
A first step to reduce our impact on our planet is to use organic cotton.
Secondly the production of garments with alternative fibers such as linen, Tencel, Modal and bambou offers a very good alternative to cotton (both conventional and organic).
Finally we believe that the ultimate solution is to use recycled cotton.
Fabrics
To facilitate your search, Ink has created a green index based on the official certifications and our personal appreciation.
Social standards
For INK it is crucial that decent social standards are respected. In order to assure this we work only with factories audited by reliable instances.
Certifications
For each of our products you’ll find the official label(s) given by an independent and reliable certification company such as GOTS, FAIR WEAR, OEKO-TEX and others. Here we give you a short overview of the meaning of those certifications.