Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bamboo U: New Business Makes Eco-Friendly Clothing for College Market

A new business, Bamboo U, is authoritative eco-friendly bamboo shirts for college-age women. Bamboo is accepting accepted as the bolt of the approaching for its ecology benefits, as able-bodied as its comfort.

Brentwood, TN -- Environmentally affable or "green" accouterment is a baby but growing trend in the accoutrement industry. College acceptance are generally added acquainted and anxious with our ecology challenges and abounding are arch the way as aboriginal adapters in the eco-clothing movement. Bamboo U wants to accommodate this adolescent bazaar with affordable eco-chic clothing.

"Younger humans are acceptable added acquainted about what they consume, which includes what they put on their bodies every day," said Jeff Fulmer of Bamboo U. "We ambition to accord them an addition that allows them to accurate their own values."

Organic affection has been the a lot of accepted bolt in the eco-clothing movement; however, bamboo is bound arising as a ascent star. Unlike accepted affection which uses huge amounts of pesticides and actinic fertilizers, the able bamboo needs no advice to abound except accustomed rainwater. One of the fastest growing plants on the planet, bamboo is aswell an abundantly sustainable, self-regenerating crop. Unlike constructed fibers which use petroleum based additives, bamboo is 100% biodegradable.

A benefit is bamboo cilia makes for an abundantly soft, hardly cottony texture. Its different breathability enables the wearer to break acknowledgment than if she was cutting cotton. Bamboo's anti-microbial abettor (kun) prevents bacilli from cultivating on it, which helps keeps the wearer odor free. If that weren't enough, bamboo by itself provides aegis adjoin the sun's adverse UV rays, authoritative it adapted for exercise wear.

Shirts at Bamboo U are a alloy of 70% bamboo and 30% amoebic cotton. They aswell use alone environmentally affable baptize based inks for their designs, as against to the actinic plastisols begin on a lot of t-shirts. Not alone is this added environmentally friendly, but it gives the printed designs a added accustomed attending and feel as the shirt is beat and washed.        

"Our logos let others apperceive you affliction about what you wear," Fulmer said. "Besides, the shirts are so air-conditioned and comfortable; already you abrasion bamboo, you'll never ambition to go aback to cotton."    

Bamboo U makes adapted tees for women and is analytic to annex into added accoutrement fabricated from bamboo.

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