Ideas can change so much. By knowing a fact like this, we can save so much of our own money, our own effort, and reduce waste just by knowing, and you can help spread the knowledge.

Threadless' T-shirts are made of cotton, not recycled plastic.

And do you have any idea how much waste is produced by the textile and ink industries that produce things like silk-screened T-shirts?

Kinda makes this the wrong medium for preachy eco-whining.

I like the design, but Kizoku is right, this isn't exactly the right medium for this, in my opinion.

No... I Kizoku isn't right. The point of the shirt is to basically advertise recycling. And... no one said that the T-shirts were made of plastic....the back of the shirt states a fact that the many plastic water containers that are thrown out equal the sum of 72 million shirts..which is a lot of money. Basically, people are throwing away money whenever they could be recycling...because recycling SAVES money. It's not the wrong medium at all..because it's promoting recycling. It's actually really smart.

good context... kizoku, just shut up ok

I'd rather listen to a lie that gets me to recycle than a fact stops me from recycling!

This is far too preachy for me.

I disagree, this shirt Is saying that you can make 72 million shirts out of all the water bottles thrown out a year. The equation makes no sense. And this DEF isn't the place for that kind of message, even if it was measuring something a bit more accurate or comparative. I'm all for spreading awareness of recycling tho, just in a more subtle and possibly more accurate and powerful way.

Get this out of my face, I prefer my shirts to be made out of something soft, not plastic.

Okay, people calm down. It's a shirt for gods sake.

In California a lot of people from Mexico and other places with terrible water refuse to drink the tap water. There's a reason for that.

That doesn't make it okay for them to not recycle.

And, I think this is an excellent shirt. FrickinAwesome, how does that not make sense? Maybe you just don't understand. Plastics can be used to make clothing products and the money that is saved from recycling can also be used to make other things.

Kizoku, that's quite a stretch you're pulling.

how the hell would you use recycled plastic to make a cotton teeshirt?

it does not make sense.

sure its great to recycle and blah blah blah

but you know if what the teeshirt was saying made sence then it could be a great shirt
but it doesn't add up

submit to a place that makes shirts out of plastic
not cotton.
then it will make sense.

its just saying recycle gawd 5$

entertain me dont educate me ....
if i want eduacation it wont be from a $5 tshirt
ill buy a book .... we just want witty smart design that looks good
when wearing it ..please

Maybe if threadless put designs on water bottles, they wouldn't get thrown away.

I don't think threadless is the right medium to be preaching this. A good incentive nonetheless!

Is it just me or are the most of the designs printed on 'plastic' ?
"Most guys designs are printed on Fruit of the Loom 50/50 Best Tees." 50/50 = 50% coton + 50% polyester.
Isn't polyester just 'plastic'?

Anyway, I like the message and I like the design, but I threadless maybe isn't the place for this.

i personally wouldn't wear this because it is way too preachy. right concept but need a different angle

I like the message and the preachyness.

Not only interesting but the irony is captivating as well.

^I'm not really that dorky.

i'm bored. sorry. try again.

hey you butt munches, stop arguing about whether the statement is correct or not, the point is many sweaters and other garments use recycled plastic.

Just because an industry is wasteful doesn't mean you shouldn't at the least try to curb that by recycling, recycle you fools.

Neat

How DARE you inform me of something!? Don't you know what sort of place this is? It's a place where people need to be entertained by unicorns humping and sandwiches with wheels. You can't come in here this this kind of CRAP. $5

...or just dont use bottles of water, but that's beside the point. If i were to ever wear a recycling billboard, it would have to be more creatively subtle than this...sorry, but nobody ever changes their ways after being yelled at, and thats what this shirt's doing

*pukes*
eco fascism is so 90s
do your part, i'll do mine
getthef*ckoverit.

How many water bottles does it take to make a t-shirt?

Meanwhile: That's quite a stretch I'm pulling? Which 'stretch' would that be, exactly? The fact that Threadless' shirts are made out of 100% cotton, and not out of recycled plastic as the design clearly (and inaccurately) suggests?

That's not a 'stretch,' it's a fact. An example of a 'stretch' would be something like, oh... say, citing an unsupported pseudo-statistic like that '72 million of these shirts' thing.

regardless of the message, this is not a well executed shirt i would want to wear.

I understand how many people may misinterpret the meaning of the shirt....thinking that shirts are made of plastic. Even though the saying is written inexplicitely, the whole basis of the shirt is to promote recyclying.
Basically, what is the main ingredient to produce a shirt besides cotton? It is...money.
Recycling helps save money..and whenever you do not recycle plastic water bottles..you are throwing away money...and it takes a lot of money to make 72 million shirts. Especially for threadless....shirts alone are about $15 a shirt...so.... do the math. 72 million x $15..a lot of money.

Don't take the shirt too literally. Shirts are not made of plastic. It was just a bad parallel, and probably could have been written more clearly.

*Argue argue argue* *Complain* *Whine whine whine* *MOOOOOAAAAAANNNNN*

So that's what I see on this page. I think many forgot to talk about the SHIRT. Not a bad design. Think the bottle on the front may be too large and in charge.

Threadless SHOULD be the place for this just as much as it's a place for any form of expression... I'd buy any shirt with an environmental message and a design this well executed. Positively awesome!

It's a good message - maybe just tweak the wording.

yeah....good message (yay for recycling! )

but change the wording so it doesn't sound like threadless makes its shirts out of plastic.

that's what it sounds like....but now that i read it again...it makes sense......but still change the wording.

do you mean the ENERGY wasted in throwing out the bottles can be used to make tshirts?
try to make it a less confusing (and thus more powerful) statement
or just change the message (text and/or graphic) to comment on the disgusting-ness of bottled water in general
read "the world without us"
yay for recycling and reducing!

Well you could always think of it this way, Oil is used to make plastic, and oil is used to power everything in a screen T-shirt factory. So the equation does make sense. And Who cares if it doesn't. It's witty. Wittiness doesn't have to make sense. Please The T-shirt is good, and perhaps the controversy behind it will make me want to buy it more to prove people wrong. Go Green.

Going naked would save a lot of resources that get wasted making t-shirts like this.

lol. this incited some arguments...i dunno...i am not too compelled by the design...i think that 72 million t shirts like this wouldn't really be that much better then a landfill of trash.

so, i super love t-shirts with a anti-pollution, pro-recycle messages; this t-shirt, i think, is cool. the one thing i would say, though, is that the wording on the back does leave room for confusion or misinterpretation, and perhaps something a little differently worded would be more powerful.

You guys and your "it's too preachy" are ridiculous. Everything preaches. There's always differing degrees of subtlety involved, but everything speaks about what you do or don't believe is important. Even if it's trendy shirts designed by independent artists.

I definitely agree that the equation isn't very believable, let alone clear. But the shirt itself is a belief statement just like anything else. Because it explicitly says it doesn't mean it's "too preachy" or "not right for threadless".

Don't be so rigid. It's a great idea. It needs work, but it's not "bannable"!

well now the shirt has been hyped up too much from all the discussion so it cant be printed anyways.

I took the slogan to mean: "An amount of water bottles are thrown out in one year equal to the amount of water bottles shown on the front of the shirt, multiplied by 72million."

Though, that can't possibly be right, can it?

I don't have my calculator on me, but that'd be like 20 x 72,000,000 which can possibly be right, can it?

Def needs to be rewritten.

Love the idea, though.