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Check our NumbersWhere'd we get those staggering numbers on the amount of resources saved by wearing your SOUND shirt? How could they possibly be true, you ask? Well, here they are. Feel free to go through them yourself and email us if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. WaterOur fact: Buying a SOUND shirt as opposed to a tradtional cotton t-shirt saves 525 gallons of water. Fact check: The UN and WaterFootPrint.org (read the publication here) state that it takes 2500 liters to make a pound of cotton. That's 660 gallons. Take away an estimate of about 135 gallons for washing the plastic bottles in SOUND shirts, and you come to our number of 525 gallons. Plastic BottlesOur fact: Buying a SOUND shirt saves five 2-liter plastic bottles. Fact check: We got that number from Wellman Inc., the company that invented the plastic bottle fiber technology. Pesticides and FertilizersOur fact: Buying a SOUND shirt as opposed to a tradtional cotton t-shirt saves 3 ounces of fertilizers and pesticides. Fact check: There are lots of numbers flying around the internet and other publications about this. We got our number from this article by Coral Rose, which goes through the calculations. Her number is 2.86 ounces, but that is for cotton grown in the US. We rounded up to 3, since fertilizer and pesticide user is worse in other countries. Child LaborOur fact: Buying a SOUND shirt instead of a traditional cotton t-shirt keeps children out of cotton fields. Fact check: Since there is no new cotton being harvested for SOUND shirts, there is no child field labor. Additionally, SOUND shirts are entirely made in the USA, so the whole manufacturing process falls under US labor laws and regulations. |
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