Clothing Made From Ocean Trash

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Clothing Made From Ocean Trash
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• If youve been following us you know we are all
  about recycling and doing whatever it takes to
  reuse recycle any and all products to help our
  environment in any way we can.

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• So when we see someone pushing the envelope and
  finding new ways to use something that is a
  nuisance and hazard to our environment we are
  thrilled and want to shout from the rooftops.

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• Theres this pro surfer dude, Kelly Slater that
  has come up with the cool idea of using old
  discarded fishing nets and turning them into
  clothes! Now thats thinking outside the box.  He
  went out and created his own company called
  Outerknown.

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• The label features a line of 100 percent
  recyclable clothing made from reclaimed fishing
  nets. I created Outerknown to smash the formula
  Slater said.

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• The material his company produces from the
  fishing nets is called Econyl, a new type of
  nylon yarn that comes from old discarded nets,
  carpets and other nylon waste. The brand,
  Evolution Series includes board shorts and
  jackets.

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• if thats not enough these clothes can be
  up-cycled over and over again into new clothing.
  There are an infinite number of times the nylon
  can be broken down and re-born into new yarn
  without the loss of quality, Outerknown noted on
  its website.

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• Figuring out a way to take what is waste and
  recycling it to create and build a business is
  cool in its own right but theres more to the
  story that makes this business model so great.
  According to the Marine Mammal Center, abandoned
  fishing nets, also known as ghost nets, account
  for approximately 10 percent of all marine
  debris.

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• Would you believe that a staggering 640,000 tons
  of these discarded nets are added to the oceans
  yearly? My first thought when I read this was
  what are the fishermen or whoever is discarding
  these products thinking of!

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• Not only are these nets bad in so many ways to
  the ocean environment but these nets are a major
  plague on marine life. More than 100,000 marine
  mammals, fish, dolphins, sea lions, seals as well
  as birds die every year from the harmful effects
  of plastic fishing nets and trash in our oceans.

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• Slater has been outspoken on the threat of
  plastic waste for some time now and sits on the
  advisory board of the Sea Shepherds Conservation
  Society.

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• On an interview with CNN Slater had this to say
  You have problems like not only oil spills and
  that kind of stuff but also the constant
  outpouring of plastics. Single use plastics all
  through the ocean, degrading, turning into little
  bits that are all eaten by the sea life, and
  theyre dying because their stomachs are full of
  stuff.

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• Granted the Outerknown collection is on the
  pricey side but to produce a truly sustainable
  clothing line cost a lot more money to bring from
  the factory to the rack than the normal way of
  producing clothing. Outerknown has partnered with
  the Fair Labor Association which is the best
  standard for protecting workers throughout the
  supply chain.

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• Additional, the clothing company has partnered
  with Bluesign, which is a sustainable textile
  auditing company that seeks to eliminate harmful
  substances from the beginning of the
  manufacturing process.

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• Kelly Slater has taken a really bad situation and
  figured out a way to turn it into something good.
  You cant get much better than that.

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