Sustainable Sourcing

At Ethical Body we believe that no one should ever have to worry about the conditions under which items created for you are produced. Learn more about what we do to ensure sustainable sourcing and manufacturing and why we choose our materials.

Our Fabric

Recycled Yarn:

Econyl

Nylon waste, otherwise polluting the Earth, is transformed into ECONYL® regenerated nylon. It’s exactly the same as brand new nylon and can be recycled, recreated and remolded again and again. That means you can create new products without having to use new resources.

Carvico

Carvico is made using 100% regenerated ECONYL® yarn, which is made with old carpets and fishing net waste.

Sustainable Practices Used by Carvico :

  1. optimizing production processes by introducing cutting-edge technologies to monitor and reduce waste and polluting residuals
  2. certifying, by means of clear data, the environmental results achieved
  3. showing a real interest in research and in the use of new sustainable raw materials, such as recycled yarns
  4. supporting important international projects aimed at safeguarding our environment
  5. contributing to the social and financial development of local communities
  6. spreading awareness among our employees and customers so that they can be more respectful of the environment

Water

In compliance with the most recent European standards and with National and regional laws and regulations, we have adopted a high tech, waste water homogenization aimed at reducing the amount of polluting agents  before it is sent to the municipal water treatment plant.
Moreover, a sophisticated system to sort rainwater from civil and industrial waters has also been implemented so as to harvest and re-use rainwater in the production process.

Our water circle

Water to be used in our company is extracted from our own boreholes and is first used to cool down the knitting machines oil. Then it is treated and used for cooling down the dyeing machinery. After that, it is collected and re-used for rinsing fabrics after they are dyed and if finally sent to the homogenization plant. After an efficient equalization process it is sent to the municipal waste water treatment plant which, through a chemical-physical biological process, purifies it and discharges it inside the river Brembo.
Water discharged by Carvico and Jersey Lomellina is clean.

Carvico is sustainably and ethically made in Italy.

"Carvico and Jersey Lomellina is one of the largest eco friendly fabric companies and, since 2016, we have been supporting “Healthy Seas”, an initiative putting together a non-governmental association and several businesses sharing a common mission: cleaning our planet waters from pollution, including the ghost fishing nets which kill so many sea creatures. Healthy Seas boasts another two-fold objective:

collaborating with fishing communities to enforce preventive actions to reduce the pollution caused by discarded fishing nets and to find new solutions for disposing of them in a financially and environmentally sustainable way
running some training programmes to promote the importance of more environmentally responsible choices."

read more at https://www.carvico.com/en/nature-voice/sustainability-commitment/

Repreve

REPREVE is made by Unifi, a global textile solutions provider and one of the world's leading innovators in manufacturing synthetic and recycled performance fibers. They provide technology-driven solutions, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment within a premier supply chain, with multiple locations worldwide.

Organic Cotton

Our suppliers use organic Indian cotton, and the entire production process is controlled and certified in accordance with the latest version of GOTS. All products are labelled as Organic.

Use the Made Fair QR code on the label of our cotton products to track the ethical and sustainable practices of our supplier’s from fiber to factory.