BELLA + CANVAS was an easy choice for a blank apparel company for many reasons. The main one being their ability to bring forward fashion to the wholesale industry in an eco-friendly way. Here are the deets from Bella + Canvas themselves: 

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Water reduction: By using newer, more efficient dye machines, we use 7x less water than the  average for clothing manufacturers, saving 24 million gallons a week. Any water we do use goes through a filtration system that allows it to be recycled.

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Energy reduction: We’re a green company through and through—taking every opportunity to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. If you take a quick tour around our headquarters, you’ll see that we use:

• Solar energy to partially power our U.S. sewing and cutting facilities

• Motion-sensor LED lighting and skylights throughout each building

• Electric car charging stations to encourage employees to go green. 

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Many Central American and Asian factories use biomass or petroleum coke—one of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet—which emits 11% more greenhouse gas than coal, along with lung-damaging sulfur. That’s why almost all U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, ban petroleum coke.  

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Instead, we power our dye house with clean steam energy. This energy exchange collects air from the dryers that goes into a thermal oxidizer, where dye oils burn to create energy. Then, a boiler captures that energy and creates steam to power the dye machine—you can’t get much cleaner than that!

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Virtually zero waste: Our manufacturing facilities and LA headquarters produce almost no landfill because we recycle pretty much everything that can’t be turned into a T-shirt. We’ve optimized our cutting to reduce plastic use, and excess fabric gets recycled into a number of things like baby bibs or stuffing for upholstery in furniture and pet beds.