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Saving Mother Earth

We should help move towards environmental friendly printing. By buying organic or environmental friendly products is one way of helping save mother earth. Recycled paper printing and soy based ink are used by some companies instead of traditional petroleum based ink to become more organic. Normally, soy based ink was developed for newspaper printing purpose. Currently it is also used for business cards and product catalogs. The advantages of this ink are it is environmental friendly and colors tend to be vibrant.

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Permalink Reply by AirDye on July 26, 2010 at 9:08pm

Takahashi,

You're so right! Conventional textile dyes for the mass market are full of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. I doubt most designers think about that when they contract out for their work, especially since most of the dyeing is done overseas and Westerners don't see the horrible pollution caused by the dye houses.

You might be interested in this article on the textile industry's waste water being dumped into the Pearl River Delta.

There's much that can be done to improve the situation!

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Permalink Reply by Altever Fernandes’s on May 13, 2011 at 7:23am

With daily increasing population and effects of the nuclear power plant explosion ,things have become really different than what it was a decade back.Now we must be really carefully regarding our surroundings and the environment if we want our future generations to have a clean and peaceful living.