Your Garden
We are now offering West County Gloves.
West County Gloves are now made with a fabric that comes from recycled water bottles. Each pair of West County Gloves will remove one 8 oz water bottle from landfills. The new fabric is stronger, softer, and easier on the planet. (Scroll to the bottom of this page to see how the process works!)
We are showcasing the "Work" Glove as featured in Urban Farm's Spring 2010 issue. Check out this great, new magazine at www.urbanfarmonline.com
Please check out all 5 styles of recycled gloves for every type of gardening! Click on the following links to learn about each type or to order the gloves.
Work Gloves (As Featured in Urban Farm)
Empty plastic beverage bottles are collected, sorted, crushed & baled at a recycling center. Then ground into flakes, & screened and washed to remove caps, labels & contaminants. |
The flakes are heated, further screened and cleaned, dried and placed in a vented extruder. The extruded plastic is cooled and then thoroughly chopped to make plastic pellets. |
The pellets are sent to a yarn manufacturing facility where they are melted & spun into polyester fiber. The recycled PET fibers are blended with new PET fibers and spun into polyester yarn. |
The polyester yarn is sent to a mill for knitting or weaving into fabric. The fabric is then sent to our manufacturing facilities to be made into the best gloves you will ever own! |
