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EarthPositive® Apparel
The Most Progressive Ethical Clothing on Earth

EarthPositive® is a green revolution in promotional apparel: Climate Neutral T-shirts. Organic and ethically made, but crucially, manufactured solely using sustainable energy generated from wind 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.
100% Organic Product
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.
Low Impact Farming
We 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.
Carbon Neutral
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.
Fair Trade Practices
Under the organic standard, farmers and agricultural workers are protected by stringent social criteria, total traceability across the entire supply chain, but also by the ban on the use of poisonous pesticides and defoliants which can severely damage the health of farmers and families. These standards also free poor farmers tied into 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, we go further, making transparent our manufacturing supply chain, through an independent audit by the Fair Wear Foundation. The FWF exists to promote fair labour conditions in the clothing industry.
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Ethical, Environmental & Sustainability Specifications
EarthPositive apparel is made to demonstrate the highest possible
environmental, social and ethical standards, in one of the world’s most environmentally damaging industries, and to provide the music, fashion and promotional garment industries with a familiar product with which to promote awareness and take action on
climate change. Now, the humble T-shirt, the most basic canvas for communicatinga brand name, corporate identity, or political slogan has become the environmental product.
Environmentally Friendly
EarthPositive apparel is certified by
the Oeko-Tex 100 Standard, Class I.
The Oeko-Tex 100 Standard is a guarantee of the safety of textiles and dyestuffs to human health. It also means we take more care in adopting environmentally friendly production methods throughout the manufacturing of EarthPositive apparel.
Wind Powered
The primary energy source for
EarthPositive apparel is thirty
massive wind turbines that generate
a continuous source of renewable electricity.
What is Climate Neutral?
Climate Neutral means our industrial greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced
to pre-industrial levels through low-impact (low emission) organic agriculture and carbon neutral industrial manufacturing, achieved
through substituting energy use from fossil fuel powered power stations with clean renewable energy from wind turbines and solar power.
Pick Your Cotton Carefully
We guarantee that we do not use cotton from Uzbekistan while the use of forced
child labour is endemic. This follows the recommendations of the Environmental Justice Foundation ‘Clean Cotton Campaign’. The complete traceability of certified organic cotton allows us to make this guarantee.
Save the Climate - Wash Cool
EarthPositive apparel can be washed at 30°C; however, we ask EarthPositive consumers to consider the effects of domestic machine washing and tumble
drying time and time again, which may contribute up to 80% of the energy used by a conventional cotton garment in its lifetime. We label our garments SAVE THE CLIMATE –
WASH COOL – LINE DRY in addition to standard wash care instructions.
We also recommend eco-friendly detergents, which have minimal aquatic toxicity and will biodegrade quickly and completely. |
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 pair of jeans. That’s why we chose to work in a region that
receives up to 95% of its water from the monsoon rain. This was an important consideration for us, 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.
Sustainable
EarthPositive was designed as
a viable alternative to cheap
conventional promotional T-shirts.
We have demonstrated that
sustainability can be used for
competitive advantage.
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
reverse osmosis to convert the
wastewater into clean water.
Biodegradable Packaging
EarthPositive apparel is packaged
in biodegradable PVC-free
packaging, and in 100% recycled
post-consumer cardboard boxes.
Transportation
EarthPositive has a ‘No Airfreight’ policy. We do not transport our goods, by air, instead we use containerised ocean shipping, and therefore the carbon footprint generated by transporting our apparel to Europe,Japan and the USA is negligible, more like a carbon fingerprint. EarthPositive apparel should not be criticised for its inability to solve the world’s transportation and energy security issues, but we can ensure that our own production methods do nothing to contribute to environmental damage, social injustice or climate change.
Transparency
The development project for EarthPositive apparel, that has taken two years to complete, will
provide the apparel industry with
a blueprint in ethical and sustainable
production. The Carbon Trust has
asked for EarthPositive to be used
as a Case Study, so that the clothing
industry will benefit from our research
and development.
Carbon Labelling
EarthPositive apparel has reduced
the carbon footprint of a T-shirt by
up to 90%. However, consumers
require an independent verification
process and a label over the claims
of individual companies. The Carbon
Trust is trialling such a carbon
reduction label. This carbon reduction
label acts as both the verification and
communication of the CO2 of
EarthPositive® apparel. The Carbon
Trust product carbon footprinting
method is to become the single standard
for a product’s carbon footprint in
the UK.
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