posted on 11:45 AM, July 27, 2010
The item shown below, is our Recycled Polyester / Organic Cotton EPOC-Fleece Canadian Heavyweight Hoody. For this project, we've added a sublimated Eco-Drytech lining to the hood, and the items is also decorated with a couple of silkscreens.
The item shown below is our Recycled Polyester D.W. Jacket in navy with glacier blue accents. For this project, we've lined the body and sleeves with Eco-Drytech sublimated with the client's custom artwork.
The item shown below is the same apparel item as on the cover of our 2010 catalog, but in this case we've replaced the iceberg image with the client's artwork. Only the front panel is fully sublimated, which lowers the cost but still provides an eye-catching design.
The item shown below is a fully sublimated fleece beanie. This artwork is from our "got Artwork?" template program; a collection of ready-to-use art for sublimation (scarf, toque and bandanna). Check it out, and contact us to request your own virtual sample today!
The item shown below is our ever-popular Corsica track jacket, made from Recycled Polyester Drytech-Dura. It is shown here in navy / white, and decorated with a left-chest and a bicep silkscreen.
posted on 11:27 AM, July 27, 2010
The item featured in the Promo Marketing Magazine "New Product Alert" page-shown below-is our Vancouver Fleece Zipneck.
posted on 11:15 AM, July 27, 2010
We first Matt and Steph way back in 2007, a year before they took off to run their way around Canada and the USA (literally, all the way around). They were just ramping up for the run, and all of the media and speaking engagements that have gone along with it, and were put in touch with us from someone that realized there is a great fit with their initiative, and what we de here. We followed Matt and Steph as they made their way on their run, by checking in on their blog, and every once in awhile they would stop in and say hi.
The item shown below is a basic mock-neck Tee-shirt in our Eco-Drytech fabric.
The image shown here is interesting, because it brings something around full circle. Way back in 2008, our Plasma-Shell jacket made it onto the BC Hydro website. Now, more than two years later, the same jacket, this time worn by Matt, made it's way into a local Vancouver Magazine - the the picture below!
photo credit: Peter Holst
You can learn more about Matt & Steph and their project Run for One Planet, at their website; www.runforoneplanet.com
posted on 10:58 AM, July 27, 2010
Source: EcoTextile News - www.ecotextile.com article link
The event is being sponsored by BCR Global Textiles, Chris Carey’s Collections, I&G Cohen Limited and Salvation Army Trading Company Limited (SATCoL) and promises to showcase the exciting design possibilities presented by the fastest growing element in the UK’s waste stream.
Fast fashion comes at a price to the environment. According to the Department for the Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), the UK buys over two million tonnes of clothes each year (worth a staggering £34 billion) but nearly half of this ends up in landfill where it slowly biodegrades producing methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
At the moment, just 24% of UK textile waste is currently recycled.
However the recycled materials market is thriving thanks to companies and organisations which collect textiles on behalf of local authorities, waste management companies and charities, saving thousands of tonnes of clothes, shoes and household textiles from landfill, while raising money for charity and setting new trends in eco-friendly fashion.
SATCoL is the UK’s largest textile recycler. Of the 3,000 tonnes of unwanted clothing donated to SATCoL every month, only five tonnes go to landfill and 96 per cent are reused or recycled. Paul Ozanne, SATCoL’s national recycling coordinator, said: “With thousands of visitors each year, RWM is a fantastic opportunity to meet prospective partners that can work with us to divert as much clothing as possible away from landfill. We currently have around 4,200 clothing banks throughout the UK and our target is 5,000. Attending big events such as RWM is a very important step in helping us to achieve this.”
Eco-textile designers
The young designers whose work will be showcased at RWM include Emmeline Childs for SATCoL and Tanique Coburn for Chris Carey’s Collections. Christine Carey, managing director of Chris Carey’s Collections said: “Tanique has already established a reputation amongst the London set, and her trendy market stall at Portobello attracts fashionistas from far and wide. She is a great example of the talent that is out there now, and illustrates an exciting fusion of talent, vision and sustainability.”
Collections designed by Nicola Sault, managing director, Grandma Takes A Trip who works with BCR Global Textiles will also feature on the RWM Catwalk. Nicola says: “Not only will the catwalk show celebrate just how attractive fashion made from recyclable materials can be, but also all the hard work, preparation and skill involved in turning previously unwanted garments into something desirable again.”
I&G Cohen will be showing designs from Tracey Cliffe whose Love Me Again collection includes bodycon dresses made from old T-shirts and swimsuits. Phil Geller, financial director of I&G Cohen said: “I&G Cohen Limited are very proud to participate in a fashion show with a local designer creating new and exciting styles from used and reconstructed clothing. It is a different, fun and exciting way to promote textile recycling. We feel honoured to be a part of this creative world, as designers who work with recycled clothing play a vital role in creating ethical, environmentally friendly designs whilst contributing to the economy. The market for fast fashion remains strong; however, in these difficult economic times the case to reduce and reuse our limited resources is stronger than ever... Textiles have for far too long been the poor relation of recyclable materials.”
The RWM Catwalk and Forum will feature three fashion shows each day and host live industry debates and exhibitor presentations.
Copyright MCL Global 2010.
posted on 3:37 PM, July 12, 2010
The item pictured below is a version of our Recycled Billboard Bag. This is a smaller and simpler version of the bag, sort of something that you would carry your lunch in, or a few small things. These are made form "scrim" that was leftover after the Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver. Scrim is sort of Mesh - you can see it in the close-up. These bags were decorated with a heat-press that describes that they are made form recycled signage that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.
The item shown below is a custom color-way version of our Fleece Enduro vest. For this project, we hit the vest with a left-chest embroidery, and built the garment with contrast flatlock that matches the embroidery.
The item shown below is a relatively basic color-way take on our Men's Corsica jacket. Shown here, the Corsica is black / white, with a left-chest embroidery.
The item shown below is another version of our Ever-Popular Men's Corsica jacket (see above). Shown here, it is lead / white with a left-chest embroidery.
The items shown below are a custom version of our men's and ladies' Sikhote Polo. Shown here, the men's version is black / red, and the ladies' is red / stone / white.
The item shown below is from the Echo Rain ECO Apparel collection. This is a Ladies' tank top, in Black / Lead. Viva Sport!
posted on 12:48 PM, July 8, 2010
Mark Trotzuk - CEO of Boardroom ECO Apparel - recently completed PHASE TWO training of The Climate Project, Al Gore's climate crisis presentation. In just four years, TCP Presenters like Mark have given over 70,000 presentations about the climate crisis, reaching more than 7 million people worldwide.
TCP's phase two presentation is based on Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, Gore's solutions-based book released last November.
To schedule a TCP presentation at your location, drop us a line and get in touch with Mark. For more information about The Climate Project Canada, please visit the TCP website.
posted on 4:29 PM, July 5, 2010
COLOR
In the beginnings of the eco-friendly apparel industry,
coloration was limited due to the unavailability of ecologically safe dyes. Though
green dyeing processes have advanced, the harshness of the coloration process
is still a big issue for eco-apparel. “There is no Earth-friendly clothing,
there is no Earth-friendly dye,” said Trotzuk. “It’s all harmful. It’s just
about how much can you mitigate the impact, how toxic or less toxic are the
chemicals… It’s about the degree of impact that you’re having on the
environment by using all these things.”
So how do you mitigate your impact? Make sure your supplier
has some kind of third-party certification process for its coloration work (if
not its whole manufacturing process), and be sure to follow up on that
certification and make sure the monitoring company is legit. “You want to make
sure when you’re dying textiles that there is a system in place to recapture
those dyes and resue them,” said Trotzuk. He stressed as well that if the dyes
are going to escape into the environment, then it’s important that they be
non-toxic and processed through some kind of waste-water treatment plants to
ensure they aren’t dumped directly into local water sources.
MARKETS
With the reduction of costs of producing green apparel down, and the options for apparel being more diverse, who exactly is buying the product? “Bigger companies – Pepsi, IBM, Proctor and Gamble – they’re all looking to do the right thing’” said Trotzuk. “The bigger companies have a vested interest in doing so because they are the ones who really have to step up to the plate and show everybody else that they are doing the right thing.” He noted that this was largely due to the awareness bigger companies have now for protecting their brand. You don’t have to look far to find examples of companies that have associated themselves with a dangerous or poorly sourced brand. “The bigger companies have more to lose, which is why they’re less shy to take the step, but they’re also more inclined to do their due diligence before they purchase stuff,” he said.
posted on 11:12 AM, July 5, 2010
The item below is a custom item. The body is a basic black RPET Microfiber. The red, yellow and white accents are actually small Drytech fabric panels. - a unique and interesting way to add a color decoration to an item! Otherwise, the item is decorated with twin sleeve embroideries, a left chest embroidery, a right-chest 3M Reflective Silver Weeded Heat-Transfer and a large 3M Reflective Silver Weeded Heat-Transfer across the back.
The item below is our ECO///CDN Heavyweight hoody, with a silver thread embroidery left-sleeve (bicep), and an embroidery on the lower right hip (back).
The item below is a ladies' ECO/// Soft-Shell Dura jacket that we made for a private-label client. This item features an accent center-zip and chest zip, and matching invisible zipper pullers on the side-pockets, and an ECO/// 3M Reflective Silver Weeded Heat-Transfer left-chest.
The item shown below is a straight color way + decoration version of our bluesign Safety tee.
The item shown below is a custom Eco-Drytech design made for a private-label client. The accent on the tee is a variation of our Eco Delinda Fleece Jacket.
posted on 11:54 AM, June 24, 2010
The item shown below is a basic full-button short-sleeve shirt made from our 100% Recycled Polyester ECO///Microfiber. It is decorated with two embroideries on the front, and a 1-color silkscreen on the back. An interesting thing about this item is that the embroidery was done to the pocket-flap before the garment was sewn together (you can see the stitching going through the embroidery). Doing the embroidery before sewing is the only way that the pocket-flap could be built with the embroidery going edge-to-edge.
The item shown below is a double-sided sublimated Fleece scarf. Our graphic design team worked with the client to design the graphics on this item, and incorporated the client's "bottle inside" branding (indicating how many recycled plastic beverage bottles are contained in the item). This scarf is sublimated on both sides. For our clients that do not have scarf-ready artwork, we've provided a "got ARTWORK?" template resource. All of the artwork is ready to go - all that is missing is your client's logo!
The item shown below is a custom ECO Soft-Shell Dura jacket. This item is built with 3M high-visibility piping front and back, and with sublimated Soft-Shell panels across the chest and on panels down the back. It is decorated with a left-chest embroidery, and we've used our specialty maple-leaf PVC / String zipper-pull. The concept, planning, design, sampling and manufacturing all took place in-house.
The item shown below is a custom color-way version of our ever-popular ECO///Tech-Fleece Enertia zipneck. It is shown here in black / stone with red piping. It is decorated with a left-chest embroidery in a thread color that matches the piping (and the client's PMS color incidentally).
The item shown below is a decorated version of our Men's bluesign® safety Spectator Long Jacket. It is decorated with a 1-color embroidery on the front-left hip, and a second "bottle-inside" 2-color embroidery on the right-cuff.
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