Laguna Fabrics

Eco Fabrics

In 2007, Enviro Fabrics division was born to develop fabrics for the growing ECO and sustainable market. There is a high demand for Enviro's open line styles made from the following ECO/sustainable fibers.

Organic Certified cottons
100% and blended with micro Bamboo; Hemp; Micro Bamboo and recycled polyester

Everyone wants to know why organic cotton is so important to us. The reason is conventional cotton is the second most heavily sprayed crop in the world. Typically, a quarter to a half pound of pesticides is sprayed on the equivalent of and average size tee shirt. Most pesticides today contain chloride compounds; when airborne they become dioxin, a cancer causing carcinogen.

Recycled certified Polyesters
100% and blended with organic cotton

Plastic waste accounts for 400 million pounds produced yearly, discarded in dumps, which will not ever degenerate. For every pound of recycled polyester produced we save 0.5 gallons of gasoline, or 1.5 million barrels of oil. RPET is made from recycled plastic containers, bottles and plastic packaging.

Micro Certified Bamboo
100% and/or blended with organic cotton

Bamboo helps reduce the carbon dioxide gases blamed for global warming. Bamboo is a natural water control barrier. Because of its wide spread root system and large canopy, Bamboo greatly reduces rain run off, preventing massive soil erosion. Bamboo can restore degraded lands. Its a pioneering plant that can be grown in soil damaged by overgrazing and poor agriculture.

Hemp
100% and blended with organic cotton and/or silk

Hemp is an extremely fast growing crop, producing 250% more fiber than cotton and 600% more fiber than flax, using the same land. Hemp leaves the soil in excellent condition for any succeeding crop. As a fabric, Hemp provides all the warmth and softness of a natural blend, but with a surprising durability not found in other fibers. The more Hemp is worn, the softer and stronger it gets.

Sorona
Blended with Bamboo and/or Bamboo/cotton

Sorona is made from naturally occurring starch in the kernels of corn. The starch is extracted from the corn sugars (glucose) and fermented. Further processing creates a polymer similar to Polyester and/or Nylon without the use of any petrochemicals. Sorona feels and dyes like their oil based counterparts.

Flax/linen blends
70% cellulosic, it absorbs as much as 20 times its weight in humidity before feeling damp. Linen fibers are naturally non-allergenic, antistatic and antibacterial.

For further information, visit our Enviro Fabrics web site @ www.envirofabrics.net