Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is the responsibility to conserve natural resources and protect global ecosystems to support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. It involves taking actions that minimise negative impacts on the environment, such as reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and preventing pollution. It also involves taking actions that promote social justice, such as ensuring fair labour practices, promoting diversity and inclusion, and supporting local communities.
Many of our principles work with these policies and can offer sustainable yarns such as recycled polyester yarn from discarded plastic bottles, GRS certified and woollen spun yarns, repurposed from clothing and scraps, this also eliminates the need for dyeing of the recycled wool. We also offer Linen and Hemp & Jute yarns which are bio-friendly, use little water, few pesticides and at end of life naturally decay back into the soil. We also offer yarn which meets RWS and EU ECO label for wool, GRS for polyester, Oeko Tex and many other Certification Schemes.
We are involved in understanding, developing, educating, persuading, comparing and checking the details of a growing number of sustainable yarns and their uses. We source yarns with British Traceable wools, Eco-friendly Viscose, Organic Cottons and some forms of Aramids and Meta-aramids that can be reprocessed. We carefully research where they come from, how they are made, how they perform in use and what might happen to the textile at the end of its life. Often “marketing” can overwhelm a more scientific approach. It’s a constant learning curve but every small step forward helps.
