About Bamboo!

I have been reading about the properties that bamboo hold. From a book called  Future Fashion white papers.

'From a production standpoint, bamboo is more efficient than trees. This grass continuously sends up new shoots, making it unnecessary to replant. Moreover, unlike trees, which can take up to 25 years to mature, it is ready to harvest after fours years. Compared to trees, it does a superior job of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and one stand of bamboo releases 35 percent more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees.Of course, we don't want to replace all trees with bamboo. By substituting bamboo for trees in our products, we can help save native forests from destruction.

Bamboo fibre has many of the physical properties that you see in cotton, and some more that you might wish you saw in cotton. For instance, it is antibacterial and has low absobency; it is hypoallergenic and offers UV protection; it is incredibly soft and it sheds dirt well. In addition, bamboo cultivation taxes the environment far less than cotton. Notoriously, conventional cotton plants get doused with chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Bamboo needs none. Cotton fields that are not in rotation require fertilizers. Bamboo thrives in impoverished soil. Cotton is thirsty. Bamboo roots hold soil tight, retaining water in the watershed; furthermore, they mitigate water pollution du to high nitrogen consumption.'

This is directly out of the book - Future Fashion white papers - page160.

New Article from The Age

Melbourne Fashion week is having a sustainable section in their event this year.
They have a swap day where you take a certain amount of garments and pay a small amount to swap your items with others, to encourage recycling and sustainability.