Buying kilts is bad for the environment!

[mddock58]

What I also find funny, is by their own website's statistics, textiles only represent 5% of household waste! Just think of how little of that would be kilts anyway!

[Tattoo Bradley]

WHAT?!?!?!?!



What a LOAD!!!

[pdcorlis]

Attention

Any of you gentlemen who have been throwing away your 37" waist 42" hip kilts - please forward them to me for "re-use"...

This has been a public service announcement.

[Andrew Green]

They did seem more concerned with textiles being tossed, and wanting to raise awareness of this. It seems like they just tossed kilts in there because they couldn't think of something better. Indeed you can RRR many textiles... what did people do with their old plaides when they had worn out? Use them to make something else. or if it is that far gone, small throws, rags, perhaps some hose... who knows? People have been re-using wool from kilts for likely as long as there have been kilts. Granted wool doesn't wear fast, but in the days when belted plaides were the norm, I could see them wearing out sooner than today's garments...and people were much more thirfty then.

Dunno where I was particularly going with this, but there's a little of my POV.

[turpin]

The manufacturing of the materials cant be bad for the environment..

Have you ever seen what woolen mills use in dyeing the wool? It's not so bad today, but they used to discharge things like methylethlawful and other nasty things into the rivers. You have to consider the entire lifecycle of a product, not just the weavers and tailors plying their trades.

[Southern Breeze]

Have you ever seen what woolen mills use in dyeing the wool? It's not so bad today, but they used to discharge things like methylethlawful and other nasty things into the rivers. You have to consider the entire lifecycle of a product, not just the weavers and tailors plying their trades.

What's the option? Kilts made of Fig Leaves?

[Colin]

I was rethinking about this and had to laugh. My ford explorer uses how much gas, is made of how much raw material, and adds how many pollutants to the air....and I should be worried about sharing a kilt?!? Besides, the way they are built, my Scottish handmade kilt will long outlast the lifespan of the ford exploder. Maybe I should sell the truck (used once in 4 weeks) and buy more kilts.....

[taxdragon]

I will volunteer to recycle any of your unwanted kilts...especially those in a 42 waist..The others I would be glad to find a new home via the ebay recycle system.....

[Archangel]

...when your kilt goes out of style 3-400 years later, I think we can all find good homes to recycle it too.

Obviously, this organization, or story editor, failed to study the waste stream of kilts for hire. Each one that comes back is dry cleaned, OMG I hope so. How much damage does that do to the economy. And then they're sold off-hire, and we're back to where we started. When my eye is better, I'll try to track the original story.

[macwilkin]

Fellas, this thread is almost a year old.

T.