Sustainability

LABwerkz Company is doing our part to help the environment by using sustainable and natural yarns in our collections. It is a small step with helping our planet and LABeanie Co. encourages everyone to do their part.

Why Organic Cotton

Conventional cotton uses 16%-25% more pesticides and herbicides than any other crop with some of these chemicals being the most deadly in the world for people with sensitive skin, allergies, and chemical sensitivities.
Runoff from conventional cotton fields is bad news.
Choosing organic keeps deadly chemicals out of waterways and off the land.
Organic is better for farmers and their families. They deserve to live free of toxic, carcinogenic chemicals.
Organic cotton is softer and more durable—going through less processing, with no chemicals to weaken fibers.
It feels better and last longer.

Why Recover Yarn

1 trillion kWh of electricity and up to 9 trillion liters of water.
10-20% of all textiles in fashion industry are estimated to be waste.
Up to 95% of the textiles that are landfilled each year could be recycled.
Recover up-cycled over 8,786,168 RPET bottles in 2019.
70% of PET bottles are not recycled, ending up in landfills or oceans.
PET is 100% recyclable and can be used for new textile products.
Conventional dye processing is particularly high-volume, high-impact source of water pollution and CO2, and uses a large variety of toxic chemicals.

In 2019 saved:

39.8 billion + liters of water.
54,479 tons of CO2, emissions.
142 million kWh in 2019.
2,926 + tons of toxic chemicals
The textile industry requires massive inputs of land for raw material production and fabric manufacturing. Such land use is a major drive of biodiversity loss, recover yarn saved over 6,690,845 m2 of land space.

In 2019 Recover Upcycled:

2,690 + tons of textile waste.
8,786,168 + RPET bottles.
Recover uses zero dyestuffs or chemicals in the processing of recover cotton fiber.

This is why we use recover and naturals yarns in our products.