The objective of this Article is to compare the environmental benefits and impacts of nanosilver T-shirts with conventional T-shirts and T-shirts treated with triclosan, a commonly applied biocide to prevent textiles from emitting undesirable odors.
A cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment (LCA) is performed to compare nanosilver T-shirts with conventional T-shirts with and without biocidal treatment.
Figure 1a shows the system boundaries for the comparison of the life cycle of conventional T-shirts and T-shirts that are treated with nanoparticles or triclosan.
Both silver and triclosan emissions are not relevant when the whole life cycle of the conventional T-shirt is assessed.
Production of conventional T-shirts with and without the biocide triclosan has emissions of 2.55 kg of CO2-equiv (contribution from triclosan insignificant).
The men, mostly older, are a mix of breadwinners in collared shirts and conventional cool guys wearing fedoras and thick-framed personality glasses.
The three corporate moguls staring out from the cover of Newsweek last week were sternly conventional: dark suits, light shirts, conservative ties, close-cropped hair.
Hoping to elicit such responses, the brand sent samples of detergent as well as hand-held black lights and digital video cameras to mom bloggers, and instructed them to wash similar shirts in conventional detergent and Seventh Generation.
And for all his ostensibly bohemian life and "creative facial hair," he is a surprisingly conventional, jeans-and-T-shirt sort of guy, put off by a girlfriend's pretentious purple beret and suffering agonies at his sister's untraditional wedding.
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That aside, conventional blue suits and white shirts don't usually generate much comment in terms of fashion.
