“A truly clean, fair and completely transparent industrial production is possible.”
«Greenpeace Media and Remei show what is achievable in terms of non-toxicity, fairness and transparency. And not in just any sewing room, but on an industrial level,» says Kirsten Brodde, head of the Greenpeace Detox campaign.
“Greenpeace Media and Remei shows what is achievable in terms of non-toxicity, fairness and transparency. And not in just any sewing room, but on an industrial level,” says Kirsten Brodde, head of the Greenpeace Detox campaign.
With Utenos as our production partner, Remei has built up a detox-compliant supply chain for us at the highest level, which is controlled from the organic cotton field to the finished style and meets the highest social and ecological requirements.
It says “Save the planet” on the white baby body. It could also say “Detoxed” on it. Because everything has been done along the supply chain to protect people and nature – as with all the products that the Swiss cotton and textile producer Remei, the Lithuanian textile company Utenos and the Greenpeace magazine department store are now producing.
And the price? It is of course above the cheap average of the fast fashion industry. But it remains affordable. “That is another reason for us to produce these textiles: Everyone should have the opportunity to buy clean fashion,” says Mona Ohlendorf, head of Greenpeace department store. And Kirsten Brodde adds: “It’s not our clothes that are too expensive, but conventional ones that are too cheap.
In conventional production, critical chemicals are used, especially during wet processes, and dyes often contain heavy metals – which is not the case with detox production.
But it is not only the chemically clean production that makes the Greenpeace and Remei detox collection a role model, the special feature is also the production under the high bioRe® Sustainable Textiles standards. They guarantee compliance with the highest social and ecological requirements, not only during dyeing and finishing, but throughout all stages of production from seed to the finished organic cotton textile.
Click here to see the Greenpeace Media film about the Detox Pilot Project.
In the traceability tool you can view the detoxified detox supply chain.
The Detox collection is available through the Greenpeace Magazine warehouse and from Greenpeace Switzerland.
