When people ask me what I do, I say I design clothes made from bamboo, I get the craziest reactions. But realising how much the global fashion apparel industry is contributing to the toxic pollution and landfill garbage, they start to understand. You see, roughly 50% of all fibres used in garment production are synthetic. Scientists now tell ...
The guilty secret of cotton no one wants you to know.
Let me fill you in on the guilty secret of cotton. Cotton is not all bad of course. It has great features. I used cotton for YEARS in my previous jobs as a buyer in fast fashion. From a manufacturing perspective it is relatively cheap, is available in knit and woven fabrics, so multiple uses, it dyes and ...
Bamboo – why we use it in all our products.
I worked for years as a product developer with some of Australia's top retailers. As a buyer, my job involved working out what the increasing fickle teenage market wanted to wear, and getting it to the market as quickly and cheaply as possible before they changed their minds. An exciting job with lots of travel. I loved ...
Our new Bamboo Eco Keepcup
Here at Bamboo Monkey - we are huge fans of http://www.1millionwomen.com.au/ Their blog is fair minded, informative and passionate about driving real change in the fight against the effects of global warming. Recently they shared some little known facts about the real cost of our much loved routine of a take-away coffee. I must admit, even I had ...
