Sentences with phrase «chemical indigo dyes»

It takes around 2900 gallons of water to make one pair of traditional cotton jeans — that's equivalent to 10,977 one litre water bottles — and when denim is coloured and rinsed, rivers are poisoned with chemical indigo dyes.

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In a new study, researchers picked up signals of the chemical compounds indigotin and indirubin, the key components of indigo dye, they report today in Science Advances.

Indigo appears to be licensed for use as a food dye in the U.S., but most [food dyes] are synthetic and of broadly similar chemical constitution to those used as textile dyes.

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Blue jeans used to get their blue from indigo, a flowering plant (and you can still find high - end, indigo - dyed selvedge denim), but that natural process is pricy, and now 90 percent of denim produced in China uses cheap, synthetic dyes made from coal tar, sulfur, and other toxic chemicals.

For the Jungle Tipi she hand dyed organic cheese cloth with chemical free and natural indigo dye to make the beautiful draping table runners.

Raw for the Planet Indigo uses 15 % less indigo, 70 % less chemicals, no salts, and produces no salt by - product during reduction and dyeing process, consequently saving water and leaving clean and recyclable water effIndigo uses 15 % less indigo, 70 % less chemicals, no salts, and produces no salt by - product during reduction and dyeing process, consequently saving water and leaving clean and recyclable water effindigo, 70 % less chemicals, no salts, and produces no salt by - product during reduction and dyeing process, consequently saving water and leaving clean and recyclable water effluent.