Bamboozled: Bamboo Fabric is NOT Necessarily Eco-Friendly

If you’re adding green to your closet by way of bamboo-fabric garments, hold up.

Although of natural, renewable origin, “bamboo textiles are essentially rayon, wood that is (chemically) liquified and extruded into a filament, then spun into thread and knit or woven into fabric,” explains Lorraine Smith, a Toronto-based sustainability consultant. And that chemically-intense process negates all the eco-friendly qualities of bamboo. Read the rest of this entry »