Our Mission
At Green Threads, style and sustainability go hand in hand. We make it our mission to offer fashion enthusiasts a unique experience compared to what is currently available in the marketplace with a sustainable twist.
We offer superior quality products of lasting value and versatile use. Serving as a driving force in a new age of sustainable manufacturing, the company crafts products that people feel good in, and good about, using premium natural materials.
Organic Cotton
Cotton is a crop. In fact, it is a HUGE crop, just like corn, wheat, and soybeans. This means it accounts for a massive amount of farmland, and just like our food crops, it can be grown with organic or non-organic methods.
At Green Threads, we choose to use organic cotton because it sustains the health of soils, ecosystems, and people by using natural farming processes. That means no toxic chemicals and 91% less water than non-organic cotton.
Green Threads' products are Certified Organic by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). If you would like to learn more about GOTS or explore even more of the benefits of organic cotton farming, please visit the following websites:
Fair Trade Certified Factories
The Fair Trade Certified™ seal represents Green Threads' participation in a movement that is improving millions of lives, while also protecting land and waterways in over 45 countries. It’s a world-changing way of doing business.
The Fair Trade Certified™ seal is the mark of rigorous social, environmental, and economic standards. Fair Trade works closely on the ground with Green Threads' factories to ensure that the people making Green Threads products work in safe conditions, protect the environment, build sustainable livelihoods, and earn additional money to empower and uplift their communities.
If you are interested to learn even more about Fair Trade, visit their website and be sure to explore their Theory of Change
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environmentally friendly dyes
The dyes we use are Oeko-Tex® certified, meaning they are non-toxic and free from harmful chemicals. The process is water-efficient and treats waste effluents, as well as capturing and reusing water during the washing processes.
STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® is one of the world's best-known labels for textiles tested for harmful substances. It stands for customer confidence and high product safety. Find out here what STANDARD 100 means and why it is worth checking for this label when buying textiles.
DAmage of fast fashion
Fashion production comprises 10% of total global carbon emissions, as much as the European Union. It dries up water sources and pollutes rivers and streams, while 85% of all textiles go to dumps each year. Even washing clothes releases 500 000 tons of microfibres into the ocean each year, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles.
Emissions from textile manufacturing alone are projected to skyrocket by 60% by 2030. The fashion industry is the second largest consumer industry of water, requiring about 700 gallons to produce one cotton shirt and 2 000 gallons of water to produce a pair of jeans. The leftover from the dyeing process is often dumped into ditches, streams or rivers.