The global recycled standard and sustainability
Home Fabrics embraces sustainable design, offering certified fabric options like the Global Recycled Standard. Ecolabeling ensures annual assessments of authenticity in production, trade, and manufacture. This commitment provides transparent information to clients, verifying the sustainability of our products.
More consumers are becoming aware of the impact of their purchasing choices, especially when it comes to design. With sustainable design rightfully increasing in popularity, knowing the providence and manufacturing process of a product is valuable information to share with clients of design businesses.
Home Fabrics is proud to offer fabric product options that boast sustainable certifications. "Ecolabelling" is a voluntary method of environmental performance certification and labelling that is practised around the world. This means that the entire chain of certification is voluntary and this process is annual. So, fabrics are assessed for their production, trading and manufacture to ensure that the stated benefit is authentic.
This is what you'll get when you see a product with Global Recycled Standard certification. The Global Recycled Standard (the GRS) stipulates that a product must have 20% recycled content before it can be certified as a business-to-business tool. If a company wants to list the GRS on their consumer-facing labelling, the product must contain at least 50% recycled content. This is a transparent way of proving to our customers that any claims made about the recycled content of our fabrics are true and can be easily checked.
When put another way, GRS yarns are also ensuring that post-consumer waste is kept out of landfill. GRS fabrics are made from used PET bottles, and on average 50 one litre bottles are used per 1kg of GRS yarn produced.
GRS yarns to ensure that post-consumer waste is kept out of the landfill. GRS fabrics are made from PET bottles and, on average, 50 one-litre bottles are used per 1kg of GRS yarn.
GRS fabrics certainly have a reduced environmental impact. 31% less fossil fuels are used in their production, along with 20% less water. They help reduce carbon emissions and water pollution - two challenges the textile industry is actively working to reduce by great amounts in the coming years.
Many people may fear that choosing a GRS fabric won't match the luxury or sophisticated design of conventional textiles. This couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, it's near impossible to tell the difference between a GRS fabric and other textiles. They are available in a wide variety of beautiful designs, are available in high-end textures like velvet, and there are colourways for every design style. You can even enjoy stain-free technology from FibreGuard in fabrics made from GRS yarns.
