Tencel's Green Credentials: Part 1

What makes Tencel green? Here are a couple of good reasons:

1. As mentioned in our previous post, Tencel is made from eucalyptus cellulose. Eucalypti are trees. And trees are a renewable resource.
2. Eucalypti can grow on marginal land—land that can’t be used to produce food.
3. Eucalypti can grow quickly without genetic engineering.
4. Eucalypti can thrive without artificial irrigation.
5. 6 m² of soil produces 10 Tencel T-shirts, whereas the same amount of soil produces only 1 conventional cotton T-shirt.

Nukleus buys all its Tencel from Austria’s Lenzing Group. Lenzing is the worldwide leader in fibre innovation and winner of multiple prestigious environmental awards—including the European Award for the Environment and WWF-Austria's Panda Award.

The Group gets its eucalyptus wood exclusively from sustainable plantations, many of which are certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). The FSC is a globally trusted organisation that promotes responsible forest management (e.g. appropriate harvesting rates and techniques, non-chemical methods of pest management, etc.). Many organizations and individuals—including Greenpeace, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and well-known environmentalist Jared Diamond—have endorsed the FSC.

Very impressive, don’t you think? That’s just the raw-material side of the story. In our next post, we’ll talk about Tencel’s green manufacturing process.