#stopprintingtshirts

How many organizations, initiatives and groups turn to t-shirts for their marketing? 

It's a sad situation. 🛎 

As an organization, we’re against the printing of T-shirts because:    💧It can take 3000 liters of water to produce a single cotton T-shirt (more water if it’s organic cotton).  ​  ♻️Synthetic fibers, including recycled PET fabric, shed microplastics, which invisibly pollute our air, water and food.   ​  🎍Growing bamboo on a commercial scale leads to the clearing of natural forestland, harming biodiversity and endangering pandas and wildlife.​  ​  🏴‍☠️There are toxic chemicals associated with some of the dyes used to give our clothing color and with the inks used for screen-printing logos. ​​  ​  🚸Cotton production involves the most child labor and forced labor in the world, according to the 2014 “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor” by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs.  ​  🛢According…