Jute and Banglaozy

The worldwide awareness on environment and health is likely to provide new opportunities on jute, due to its environment-friendly characteristics. Jute and kenaf have been employed for centuries as packaging materials. In recent times they are found to be a valuable aid to sound environmental management. Jute, a natural fibre that can be used in many different areas, supplementing and/or replacing synthetics, has been receiving increasing attention from the industry. Their interests focus not only on the traditional uses of jute, but also on the production of other value-added products such as, pulp and paper, Geo textiles, composites and home textiles etc. Jute is an annually renewable energy source with a high biomass production per unit land area. It is biodegradable and its products can be easily disposed without causing environmental hazards. The roots of jute plants play a vital role in increasing the fertility of the soil. By rotating with other crops like rice and potatoes, jute acts as a barrier to pest and diseases for others crops and provides also a substantial amount of nutrients to other crops in the form of organic matter and micro nutrients. Jute and kenaf have ecological adaptability, and can be grown on a range of soil types. They have a good tolerance to salinity, water stress and water logging. Agronomic ally, jute and kenaf have advantages as regards their resistance to climatic extremes, pests and diseases. Jute plants have high carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilation rate and it clean the air by consuming large quantities of CO2, which is the main cause of the greenhouse effect. Theoretically, one hectare of jute plants can consume about 15 tons of CO2 from atmosphere and release about 11 tons of oxygen in the 100 days of the jute-growing season. Studies also show that the CO2 assimilation rate of jute is several times higher than that of trees. (Inagaki, 2000)

Jute is an annually grown plant mostly grown in Bangladesh and India. Jute fibre comes from the ribbon (outer skin) of the jute plant. Jute is one of the strongest natural fibers. The long staple fibre has high tensile strength and low extensibility and therefore very suitable for making shopping bags. Jute Bag Australia does not intend to introduce just another green bag in Australian market. It aims to provide a real and sustainable solution to the plasticepidemic, not just a stop-gap solution like the existing green bags. The so called environment friendly green bags are reusable and recyclable but not biodegradable. These green bags are made of polypropylene- a fossil fuel-based plastic which is a by product of oil refining.

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Features of jute shopping bags:

* Made fromnatural jute fibre.

* 100%biodegradable.

* At the end ofits life when jute bags are left to rot on the ground they increase the     fertility of land. Expired jute bags could probably be used as mulch for landscaping or as Geo-textiles to increase fertility of arid lands.

* Recyclable and reusable ( can be used for long time).

* Very strong and therefore able to carry lot of load.

* Can be made indifferent shapes, designs and colours.

* Company logos and messages could be printed on the bags.

* Not too heavy or thick compared to existing green bags.
The whole process, starting from seeding the jute plants to making the bags, does not require any heavy processing and therefore does not emit any significant amount of carbon into the air. On the contrary, Jute plants have high carbon dioxide (CO2) assimilation rate and it clean the air by consuming large quantities of CO2, which is the main cause of the greenhouse effect. One hectare of jute plants can consume up to 15 tons of CO2 from atmosphere and release about 11 tons of oxygen in the 100 days of the jute-growing season. http://www.jute.org/environment.htm

The Jute plant is one of India’s biggest exports, and for good reason.The versatility of the plant rivals only cotton in its range of applications across many industries, from food to textiles to wood. It is the second most important vegetable fibre after cotton, in terms of usage, global consumption,production, and availability.

Reusable:
* Jute fibre is strong, durable and highly tensile. This makes for tough products, and the fibres can also be re-purposed from old products into new products.

* Jute’s adaptability means that it can be blended with other fibres suchas cotton or wool to create hybrid materials.

collected: farmers carries raw jute to the market

Biodegradable:

* Jute not only breaks down naturally, it acts as a fertiliser when it degrades, enriching the soil it is disposed in.

* Jute is 100% biodegradable is a long, soft vegetable fibre that can be spun into coarse, strongthreads

* grows quickly and abundantly and has very low environmental impact

used in many ways since ancient times

* Jute is a insulating fiber and this is why it can be used to make cloth which would be used in electrical works.

* Temperature is passed in this fiber slowly because of the low thermal conductivity.

* Moisture Regain properties is good enough (about 13.75%).

* Produce no irritation in skin.

* Tensile strength is high.

* Jute Fabric is highly breathable and comfortable to use.

* Can be widely used in Agriculture Sector, Textile Sector, Woven Sector,Nonwoven Sector.

* Jute Fibre can be blended with Natural and Synthetic fibers.
Sustainable:

* Jute is a hardy, rain-fed crop with little need for fertilizer orpesticides, good for the land. It is typically grown as an off-season crop that supplements growers’ income, good for farming communities. Everyone wins.

* Jute can meet most of the world’s need for wood, as an alternative material it helps prevent ongoing deforestation by industrialisation.

*It saves money. We automatically find opportunities to start saving, by       understanding how we waste things.

*It reduces your tax bill - climate change levy, landfill tax and more to come - need we say more?

* It can prevent prosecution for you and your suppliers, allowing you to get on with your business uninterrupted.

* It's good PR and adds value to your products and services.

* It opens up new opportunities to collaborate,develop products and keep stakeholders happy and confident.

collected: posing to the camera with raw jute on shoulder (anon)

* It's a responsibility and some say a pleasure to preserve economic, social and environmental well being so that you and your children have an equal chance to provide for yourselves now and in the future.

Banglaozy is delighted to take the opportunity to introduce stylish home and personal productsin market. The specialty of the products from Banglaozy is eco-friendly; is also promising change the elegance in the fashion industry with the concept of rooted in the well-enumerated theories of natural capital, the Eco-Economy andCradle-to-Cradle Design. The products are not just efficient but essentially waste free.

Banglaozy established in 2007 now located at Eastlakes, NSW 2018, Australia. It is an authentic house of production focusing oneco-friendly bags, shoes and cloths, stylish home and fabrics’ lines. Its serviceis geared completely to the needs of the fashion hunger population in around the world. It has phenomenon and modified selection of stylish product range that fits to Australian fashion oriented and environment apprehensive requirements. Its ultimate goal is to work as a one stop solution centre from beach to business for all customers’ fashion appetite.

As its main motto is to promote products that environment friendly and sustainable, so it’ll be using mostly biodegradable fabrics, natural and reusable material to make products. With the co-operation of cottage industry of fifteen manufacturers and few hundred artisans from Bangladesh it will make sure customer always get the best products and services and artisans get their fair share. There will be option to support and sell similar trend product line from other manufacturers too.

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Eco sustainable life style products made of jute and natural stuff :) environment and products

One major topic that is currently storming in the debating table is our environment. In recent decades in the environments we are currently living is changing more rapidly than the 40 or 50 years ago. But these changes of environment are not bringing any good news for the inhabitants of this world. Because environment is being distorted in such a way that our future generation existence already in question. In response with this wake up call concerned people from different parts of the world are thinking of protecting our environment to ensure neat and safe world for future generation. The major solution to protect this environment is to prevent the use of products, material which causes serious detrimental effect on our environment.

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There are so many threats that our environment are currently facing. We may all hear about the decay of the ozone layer in our atmosphere. This is thought to be the single most important reason for the global warming. We already start experiencing the impact of global warming in the earth. Because of rise in the temperature which causes uplift of sea level could put thousand of lives in many tiny islands are in jeopardy. Major portion of lands of country like Bangladesh, Maldives, Fiji, and Srilanka, Vanuatu will be under the sea because of this rising sea level. Thousands of people of those countries will be homeless and ultimately turn into natural refuges. Adverse effects of climate change are seen in Australia. This country is experiencing worst drought in century in last two years. This drought caused reduction in production of essential commodity like wheat in great amount which push the prices of these commodities record high in world market. China, India, USA, Canada all major producer of essential commodities are facing same problem. Rising sea level not only put thousands of people homeless but also will cause extinction of many rare species from this world. Severe flooding, Untimely hurricane, soil erosion has become most common natural incidents in recent years. Now if we look at the reasons why our environment is changing so rapidly we would find Mankind causes the most destruction of the environment. And this happens not only for just lack of awareness and knowledge among the people but also indecision among major powers regarding the environmental issue. Even USA, single most polluter of environment not signs the Kyoto protocol yet. But most horrifying thing is that we are running out of time to save this planet. So something needs to be done in urgent manner. As a conscious citizen we can contribute a lot to save our environment. By changing our daily habit a little bit we can reduce the pollution in a great extent. For example our daily shopping bag. Most shoppers all over the world are primarily known with shopping bags made with plastic or polypropylene. But here are some materials that scientist have identified as most disastrous for our environment especially for earth soil. These materials include Plastic bags, canes, polypropylene products etc. Still some ague in favour of polypropylene but nobody claim that it is not entirely harmful to environment. Again some plastic materials are recycled to reduce the pollution but in a recent survey shows that only 5% of all plastic bags use in country like Australia are recycled. So by just using Eco-friendly bags instead of plastic or polypropylene bags we can put a step ahead to save our world. Not only shopping bags if we start using Eco-friendly other products it wont be so difficult to bring back our green and safe climate in its previous state. Day by day more and more public opinions are forming in favour of using products which are not harmful to our environments. Governments and environmentalist groups are taking so many public awareness programs to encourage the people to use environment friendly products.

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There are so many Eco sustainable life style products are introduced to reduce the harmful effect of environmentally hazardous products. It is usually regarded that products like Bags, shoes; fashion items made by different natural fibres are could be safe regarding our environment. There are 3 types of fibres are available by which Eco-friendly products can be produced. They are Natural plant fibres like cotton, jute, flax, hemp, bamboo, straw and paper. Animal fibres like wool, hair, and silk. Man made fibres such as Nylon, Polyester. As most of the soil and water pollution are occurred due to use of plastic shopping bags in all over the world, jute made bags and other products bring a golden opportunity to replace those plastic products and therefore protect our environment. Jute is a soft vegetable fibre from the Cachous plant which can be spun into coarse strong thread. Jute is a wonderful, sustainable, tough material. It’s totally biodegradable and durable. Its life span comparable to 1000 plastic bags. No toxic gases of harmful emissions are created in the production of jute bags. Jute plants consume CO2- the main cause of the greenhouse effect. The jute industry provides income for an estimated five million people in India and Bangladesh. Not only had shopping bags we can use other products like shoes, clothes made by Eco-friendly fibres.