Fashion Companies Trying to Help Environment

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Permalink Reply by Apparel1 on June 25, 2009 at 10:28am

In a conscious effort to reduce both material use and waste, The Timberland Company unveiled today its Earthkeepers 2.0 boot – the first footwear the company has designed to be disassembled and recycled, rather than discarded, at the end of its product life. After wearing them on life’s many adventures, consumers who buy the Earthkeepers 2.0 boots simply return them to any Timberland store for recycling.

You can read more about it at Timberland Sustainability with First Recyclable Footwear

Permalink Reply by Apparel1 on January 25, 2010 at 3:05pm

Levi's Care Tags Promote Donating to Goodwill : A Care Tag for Our Planet

Goodwill and Levi's ® are launching a new initiative this month, "Care Tag for Our Planet," designed at diverting billions of pounds of unwanted clothing from landfills. Levi's® jeans now feature a care tag that encourages owners to donate to Goodwill when no longer needed. The tags are a unique vehicle for educating consumers about how to care for their clothes responsibly.

"The simple act of donating your used Levi's® jeans to Goodwill helps to reduce the approximately 23.8 billion pounds of clothing and textiles
that go into U.S. landfills each year," said Jim Gibbons, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. "The 166 local, independent Goodwill agencies in the United States and Canada use those donations to create job training services that help more than 1.5 million people."

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