Eco-Friendly Options
We have lot's of options to help make your project as green as possible.
Eco
Clothing
We work with a number of different clothing suppliers, who can provide Eco-friendly, recycled and sustainable products.
Clothing Brands which have sustainable ranges include:
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Continental Clothing - offering 100% Organic Cotton or products made from 100% recycled materials. They aim to provide sustainable garments while reducing their carbon footprint. Their garments are designed to work with water base and discharge inks.
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Stanley/Stella - carry 4 different Eco-certifications. These include, GOTS, OCS, Oeko-Tex, and PETA approved. Their brand centres around sustainability and the use of organic cotton.
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Westford Mill - offer a organic cotton bag range, many of which have been dyed using sustainably-derived natural dyes.
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Native Spirit - use a wide range of eco-friendly materials in their products. These include; Hemp, In-conversion cotton, Merino wool, Sorona, Hessian, Segrass, Modal, Recycled cotton, recycled polyester and lyocell. They carry eco-certification from GRS, RWS, Oeko-Tex, EVE Vegan, OCS.
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Premier - offering Organic Cotton Aprons and recycled nylon jackets.
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Ecologie by AWDis - use factories which are GOTS, RCS, SEDEX, BSCI or Oeko-Tex certificated. All their garments have been approved by PETA to be 100% animal ingredient free.
This is just a small selection of Brands we can offer who provide an Eco-friendly range. For a more complete look at what we can offer, please follow the link below to our shop.
Eco
Embroidery
At Doves we use Madeira embroidery thread. Our standard Madeira thread is Oeko-Tex certificated.
On request we can offer Madeira's new range Sensa Green which is made from 100% Lyocell, which is biodegradable. We can also offer Polyneon Green which is made from 100% recycled (PET) plastic bottles. This thread has all the same properties as standard polyneon.
Our embroidery backing is made to Oeko-Tex standards and the binders used in the backing is Formaldehyde free.
We can also access backing which is 100% Biodegradable.
Eco
Screen-printing
At Doves we can use Water base inks, PVC free and Phthalate free inks.
Our water base inks carry the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 Class 1 certificate. This certificate means that the inks we use have been thoroughly tested for harmful substances and they have been found to be harmless to human health. Class 1 of the certificate means the product has passed the strictest requirements and limit values that Oeko-Tex carry out.
Eco
Finishing & Packaging
At Doves we can offer a wide range of different finishing and packaging options to make your final product more environmentally friendly.
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Polybagging - we can now offer two different Eco-friendly polybags. A Compostable bag which is plant based and 100% biodegradable. And a Sugarcane Carbon Neutral Polybag, made from sugarcane and 30% consumer waste. These are 100% recyclable and carbon neutral - PAS2050 certified.
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We can use 100% paper or kraft paper swing tags instead of ones which contain plastics. These can then be applied to garments with biodegradable/compostable twine instead of plastic kimble tags.
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Once we pack your garments in cardboard boxes, we can apply stickers which say 're-use' or 'recycle' me. Where possible we will try to recycle boxes.
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Boxes can be sealed with paper tape which is free from plastic and animal products, rather than the traditional plastic tape.
Eco Certifications
There are a lot of different certificates associated with Eco-Friendly products. For more information on each of these and what they mean, please follow the below links.
GOTS - Global Organic Textile Standard
OCS - Organic Content Standard
GRS - Global Recycled Standard