How Do You Ensure Organic or Recycled Material Content in Your Eco-friendly Products? 

• streetwearTruth works with on-demand suppliers. We only produce items we get an order for, avoiding textile waste from overproduction. Our printing partner’s high-quality printing tech creates almost no wastewaters and uses less energy than standard industry printers. 
  
  Apparel products in our eco-friendly product collection consist of at least 70% organic or recycled materials, or such material blends.
  
  As proof of the organic composition of the apparel products, we only accept GOTS or OCS certificates. For recycled composition, we accept either GRS or RCS certificates.
  
  GLOBAL ORGANIC TEXTILE STANDARD (GOTS)
  The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibers, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent third-party certification of the entire textile supply chain. This standard also sets limitations on other fibers that can be blended with organic fibers.
  
  Organic Content Standard (OCS)
  The Organic Content Standard (OCS) is a certification for non-food goods that confirms the organic material presence in the final product. It also follows the supply chain from its source to the final product.
  
  Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Claim Standard (RCS)
  The Recycled Claim Standard (RCS) and Global Recycled Standard (GRS) are international, voluntary standards that set requirements for third-party certification of recycled content and supply chain. The shared goal of the standards is to increase the use of recycled materials. The GRS includes additional criteria for social and environmental processing requirements and chemical restrictions.
  
  Ecocert COSMOS
  Ecocert COSMOS standard ensures ingredients are derived only from natural origin except for a limited ingredients list authorized in small quantities. On average, Ecocert-certified products contain 99% ingredients of natural origin.
  
  Ecocert standard verifies the composition, processing, and packaging of the product.
  
  ​The certification ensures an environmentally friendly and safe product that’s made with consideration of biodiversity and the preservation of natural resources. This certification includes other factors like the absence of GMO and petrochemical ingredients (parabens, phenoxyethanol, perfumes, and synthetic colorants).
  
  Vegan?
  Yes. Everything on the site if free of animal product.
  
  What about the inks?
  nearly all apparel is printed via DTG (direct-to-garment) or Sublimation (digital method using either heat or pressure to transfer the design). When traditional inks are used, it is noted
  
  DTG products
  For DTG products, we use Kornit Water-based and NeoPigment inks that are Oeko-Tex™ certified, which means they are safe to print on children’s clothing and reduce environmental waste. These inks provide a high washing colorfast AATCC rating of 4.  
  
  Sublimation products
  We use Mimaki Dye Sublimation Ink Sb411 and Sawgrass SubliJet HD ink for sublimation products. Both of these inks are Oeko-Tex™ certified. For some sublimation products, we also use MYSUBLI-E Sublimation Transfer Ink.
  
  POSTERS & PRINTS

• we use Epson UltraChrome GS3 ink. This ink is also GREENGUARD Gold certified.
  
  Packaging*
  *Note: This information applies to in-house facilities. Apparel products that are fulfilled in our partner facilities might be packaged differently. 
  
  At streetwearTruth all apparel products are packed in post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic mailers. The amount of PCR in the packaging will differ depending on where your order gets printed, but it’s at least 50% for the outside (white or grey) poly mailer bags and at least 30% for the inside (clear) bags used in multi-item shipments. PCR packaging is made from everyday items, like used plastic bags and bottles. This material protects your order just as well as regular plastic bags, however, choosing PCR over first-use plastics reduces the environmental impact plastic has on our planet.