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Old 06-26-07 | 10:33 AM
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since we're talking green

Originally Posted by Cyclon
Patagonia makes a couple of different fleece jackets out of recycled plastic bottles.
actually they use pcr content in all of their fleece. and they use all of the scraps to make kids stuff. their corporate headquarters fills two dumpsters with trash in an entire year. it's an amazingly green setup.

and as a plug for their organic cotton...it takes nearly 3lbs of pesticides to grow enough cotton to make a single t-shirt. cotton grown for clothing is the single biggest user of pesticide in the world.
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