We hear a lot these days about "going green.
" To some people, that means taking drastic measures to prevent the earth from "burning up.
" To others, it simply means taking care of what we have, reusing, recycling, not wasting and finding new ways to pollute less.
This idea has now moved into the pet industry with something called Reknitz sweaters, dog sweaters that are made from reclaimed cotton.
Using reclaimed cotton does the following: REDUCES:

• Waste
• Fertilizers
• Water
• Insecticides

REUSES:

• Cotton fibers
• Dye

What is reclaimed cotton? In the process of making a cotton T-shirt, a sizable amount of extra cotton is left over.
Normally these left-over scraps of cotton fabric are destroyed in an incinerator or simply taken to a landfill, but now there is a new process by which these scraps of cotton are cleaned and separated into raw fibers and then made into a new premium product - dog sweaters - without having to use additional water, fertilizers, insecticides or even farmland to grow new cotton.
Not only that, but there's less going to landfills and less pollution into the air from incinerators.
According to idealbite.
com, "non-organic cotton crops use 25% of all insecticides globally.
" Combining this with the large amounts of water that are needed every year to grow cotton, using reclaimed cotton results in a lot of reducing! Since reclaimed cotton fibers already exist, a resource is being reused that our society has already dedicated time and energy toward.
As these cotton fibers were originally manufactured into sheets of fabric for making clothes for humans, they are top quality but cut too small to make other articles of clothing.
The cotton scraps are cleaned and separated into raw fibers by color and then blended with 24% new acrylic fibers and spun into yarn.
There is no need to re-dye the fibers because the careful mixing of the colored fibers allows the reuse of the existing dye on the fibers and creates unique and eye-catching colors.
Using reclaimed cotton to make dog sweaters reduces waste, fertilizers, water and insecticides, reuses cotton fibers and dye, keeps more garbage out of landfills and prevents pollution from incinerators - just one more way to "go green.
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