As we've previously blogged, all Etavonni Home product is certified Made in Green by Oeko-Tex. This certification is the most wide reaching, comprehensive certification in textiles manufacturing in the world. In our first blog on this we focused on our manufacturing processes, which encompasses waste treatment, chemical usage, and energy sources among other tested aspects in manufacturing.
The second piece of it centers around factory worker safety which by extension includes consumer safety. There are three basic exposure pathways through which a person can have mild to severe reaction to chemical substances. Those are inhalation, ingestion, and contact with the skin.
All of our RE bedding is made with a blend that includes recycled plastic bottles waste. So, how do we recycle a plastic bottle?
Well, first we sterilize the bottles and then crush them into very small pieces. These very small pieces are then heated and passed through a machine called a spinneret to create strings of yarn. The yarn is then spooled, and put through a crimping process to give it a “fluffier” (scientific description) texture. Now it is a yarn ready for manufacturing.
