Unravelling the Impact of The Formal Club’s TENCEL Shirts
Want to know how exactly TFC’s TENCEL shirts are ethical and eco-friendly? Let’s take a look at their life-cycle and impact.
Environmental Impact and Water Usage
TENCEL fabric for our lyocell, Tencel, and Tencel blend shirts is made using the same closed-loop technology that is used to make sustainable Lyocell in Europe. This means we reuse the water during the production cycle, reducing the water usage, and releasing less toxic by products into the environment.
As popular wisdom goes, TENCEL tends to require less energy than conventional fabrics like cotton. Additionally, you cannot call a fabric TENCEL unless it is made of responsibly sourced wood and our shirts are all FSC certified, meaning this Eucalyptus based fabric will biodegrade.
Every TENCEL shirt you buy instead of a cotton one, you save around 10 times more water. Drink up?
Impact on Soil
The raw material for the TENCEL shirts we sell is sourced responsible from FSC certified wood pulp. We strongly stand against unsustainable deforestation.
Since the TENCEL fabric comes from wood pulp, there is no question using pesticides to grow the trees, which means that there is no surface run off or soil destruction. Yet, we cannot claim our TENCEL shirts are certified organic as they simply are not.
Travel emissions
While our shirts travel, both to us from mills and to you from our headquarters in Chandigarh, as an effort to reduce that travel impact, we send a seed paper thankyou note with every order.
Not only does this allow us to build a community, an important part of sustainable living, and appreciate our customers but it also means the plant grown will help mitigate the carbon in the air.
Plus, all tags on our shirts are seed paper, meaning you will get the cooling effect of multiple plants. Sure, house plants aren’t the most sustainable, but if we can help pollinators, cool our homes, filter VOCs from our air, and reduce our carbon footprints, why not do that?
Other than the environment, we also take social aspects of sustainability and responsible living seriously. Not only do we engage in several charitable initiatives, but our formal shirts for men are made in small batches to reduce waste with the help of the local community. Keeping to ethical standards, helps us empower our communities, paving the way for a better future.
Impact on People
1. Human health
Since our TENCEL shirts are made of raw materials that is made in a closed loop system, we do not expose the environment or people to many toxins.
Plus, the material is safe to wear on the human skin and helps against heat, which is the need of the hour in India with the rising temperatures. Tencel also has 50% more absorption than cotton, making it perfect to beat these heat waves.
2. Fair Trade
We adhere to the highest ethical standards when paying our workers for the shirts they made. The mills we work with claim the same.
Another important aspect of healthy ecosystems is biodiversity.
Impact on Animals
1. Effect on marine life
As we work with a closed loop system that minimizes water usage and the release of toxins into the environment, we can assume out TENCEL shirts have no dire effects on marine live, especially since TENCEL is a sustainable plant-based fabric.
2. Plant-based
As mentioned TENCEL is a plant-based fabric which comes from wood pulp. While that process requires the use of chemicals, we try our best to minimize harm on ecosystems. Thus, you could call our TENCEL shirts vegan and low-impact, though they aren’t the most sustainable item on the block either.
Ready to start look chic while also being sustainable? Join hands with The Formal Club, with our wide range of TENCEL shirts, which are versatile and durable to serve you well for a long time.
Also Read: Why Responsible Fashion Aligns with the Principles of the Yogic Lifestyle
