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Stop sandblasting in jeans manufacture!

In the wake of the recent World Health Day, the Clean Clothes Campaign has called to put a worldwide stop to sandblasting in the production of jeans.

Sandblasting gives a finished pair of jeans that fashionable “used look”. Worn out areas lend the visual feel of a previous (and perhaps more adventurous) life to what is really a brand new garment. The workers involved in this process are exposed to extremely fine dust and fall ill alarmingly quickly, victims of deadly silicosis. Thousands suffer from this dangerous lung disease in production countries like Turkey, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh or Egypt.

Unbelievable, isn’t it? We run around in cool and sexily frayed attire while, on the other side of the world, the people who made them are dying because of it. Since the CCC’soutcry against sandblasting, leading companies have stopped using the dangerous process, searching for viable alternatives instead.

Read more at the source.

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This isn't exactly eco-conscious fashion but I thought that this part of the forum was the best place to post it. Our fashion choices also affect more than the environment and in this case, it's other people's lives.