Treehugger Post

T-shirts are a common clothing item to wear. Often you'd have one hanging in your closet, crumpled in the basket or folded in your dresser. What many don't know is that making T-shirts are very bad for the environment. Thousands of liters of water are used to make just one, dyes pollute water ways and formaldehyde is still used today in screen printing. Marci Zaroff saw the fashion industries statistics on T-shirts and met up Cas Silver, owner of a tye-dye business. The result was a new idea called MetaWear. MetaWear uses dyes made from seaweed, to help protect the environment, and uses screen printing without formaldehyde. This is one of the only clothing businesses that have an environment-friendly dye, which has big potentials with large T-shirt producers. The seaweed dye, called SeaInk, could be the next step toward us becoming a treehugger. I feel that as issues like global-warming become more prominent, we need to find ways to utilise our plants in better ways to help save our planet.