100% organic

100% Organic Cotton

EarthPositive® apparel has reduced the carbon footprint of a T-shirt by 90%

EarthPositive® is a green revolution in promotional apparel: Climate Neutral. Organic and ethically made, but crucially, manufactured solely using sustainable energy generated from wind and solar power.

EarthPositive® is a practical and immediate solution for business and fashion to face their biggest challenge and take immediate action to combat climate change.

EarthPositive® have specifically chosen to work in regions where organic cotton is planted and harvested by hand, without mechanization, and because organic farming does not use petroleum based chemical fertilizer, pesticide or herbicide, it is less reliant on fossil fuels.

EarthPositive® apparel is made in carbon neutral manufacturing facilities in India, from ‘low impact’ organic cotton, and is distributed through carbon neutral warehouses and offices in London that use only renewable green electricity.

EarthPositive® is a 100% organic product, produced under the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and certified by The Control Union and The Soil Association.

EarthPositive® is GM free.

EarthPositive® has been created in a modern world, where global industrial civilization has caused irreparable damage, first to the environment and now to our climate. Every natural living system is in decline and the climate is man’s “final frontier” or damage being done to the Earth’s natural balance.

EarthPositive® has a single aim, which is to prove that it is possible to produce (cotton) clothing without any detrimental effects to the Earth’s soil or water, its inhabitants, whether they be animals, plants or people, or to its climate.

If you would like to find out more about the EarthPositive® garments we stock, e-mail us your details (via our enquiry page) and we will send you a brochure and a free organic tote bag (subject to stock). Please Quote EP2010.

FAIR TRADE PRACTICES

Under the organic standard, farmers and agricultural workers are protected by stringent social criteria, total traceability across the entire supply chain, and also by the ban on the use of poisonous chemicals that can severely damage the health of farmers and their families. These standards also free poor farmers from third world debt to chemical companies on the ‘pesticide treadmill’.

JUSTICE FOR WORKERS

To help tackle the social injustice often seen in manufacturing, commonly known as sweatshop labour, EarthPositive® goes further, making transparent the manufacturing supply chain through an independent audit by the Fair Wear Foundation, which promotes fair labour conditions in the clothing industry.

LOW CARBON

EarthPositive® is made in manufacturing facilities in India powered by wind turbines, from low-impact organic cotton, and is distributed through carbon neutral warehouses and offices in that use only renewable green electricity.

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

EarthPositive® is certified by the Oeko-Tex 100 Standard, Class I. The Oeko-Tex Standard is a guarantee of the safety of textiles and dyestuffs to human health and to the environment. It also means we take more care in adopting environmentally friendly production methods throughout the manufacturing process.

LOOK AFTER OUR WATER

The processing of the dye effluent takes place in a controlled closed-loop purification system that uses treatment ponds, sand filtration and reversed osmosis to convert the waste water into clean water.

LOW WATER FOOTPRINT

It can take more than 20,000 litres of water to produce 1kg of cotton, equivalent to a single T-shirt and a pair of jeans. That’s why EarthPositive® chose to work in a region that receives up to 95% of its water from the monsoon rain. This was an important consideration as the monsoon rain reduces the need for large-scale irrigation projects normally associated with conventional cotton farming, which often deprive local villages of scarce water resources by draining lakes and rivers.

PICK YOUR COTTON CAREFULLY

EarthPositive® guarantee that they do not use cotton from Uzbekistan while the use of forced child labour is endemic. This follows the recommendations of the Environmental Justice Foundation's ‘Clean Cotton Campaign’. The complete traceability of certified organic cotton allows EP make this guarantee.

TRANSPORTATION

EarthPositive® has ‘No Airfreight’ policy. They use containerized ocean shipping, thus the carbon footprint generated by transporting the apparel to Europe, Japan and the USA is negligible, more like a fingerprint, less than 1% of the total. They cannot solve the world’s transportation and energy security issues, but can ensure that methods do nothing to contribute to environmental damage, social injustice or climate change.

CARBON LABELLING

EarthPositive® apparel has reduced the carbon footprint of a T-shirt by 90%. However, consumers require an independent verification process and a label to confirm the claims of individual companies. The Carbon Trust is trialling such a label with select pilot partners. EarthPositive® was granted the first such label for a textile product. The Carbon Trust's footprinting methodology is to become the single standard for greenhouse gas footprinting.

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