Products manufactured in the United States are reknowned for being high-quality. We are not as efficient with our recycling as people in Europe are, however, we could astound the world, once again, with our Yankee innovation of textiles made using organic plant waste material.
This could help farmers, agriculture, as well as the textile industry. It would also give our deflated collective ego a boost, one that we here in the United States need. Of course, on the downside, the recycled plant material fabrics might reinforce the image of people in this nation being a bunch of grass-roots hicks. However, this is part of what makes the place so attractive for immigrants.
The hula skirt, updated, with a hybrid fabric made of recycled clothing and grass clippings, could be an international staple. We have warehouses full of garments that are not being used, that are not going to be used, that are now less than wearable. We can refabricate these fabrics. reducing our landfills, and encouraging industrial production, just enough so that we keep the shirts on our backs.
Gasoline prices are above four dollars per gallon, and home assembly is more in than ever before. Keeping national materials available encourages homeworkers as well as housepeople to continue working from the home office. We need to keep our American fashion designers in materials, while our nation prepares for the fourth wave of technology. Everybody needs food, clothing, hygeine, and shelter - manufacturing textiles helps us to achieve three of these needs, and encourages food production indirectly by way of helping out the farmers who grow the food that we eat.
If costs of textiles are lower, we might be able to pay more for international workers who mass produce garments overseas. We might also be able to bring our factories into the 21st century with solar power, wind power, rain power, and other zero toxin producing technologies.
Published by Renji Shino
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Post a CommentRayon is already being commercially manufactured into products from bamboo (basically a thick, tall grass.)
http://www.bizrate.com/gold-toe-bamboo-socks/ - one purveyor of bamboo socks
Bamboo is also manufactured into other products
http://www.greenearthbamboo.com/Articles.asp?ID=132
A little bit of information about cellulose
cellulose
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