Sandblasting jeans causes severe lung problems. Sign petition.

[Maraya1969]

OVERVIEW

Sandblasting, which gives jeans a 'worn' or used look, is known to kill workers in garments producing countries like Turkey and Bangladesh where jeans sandblasting is done manually. The process involves workers firing sand under high pressure at jeans. Dust then enters the environment, exposing workers to silica, which causes silicosis in the lungs. Eventually, workers die because they cannot breathe properly anymore. There is no known cure. Some major brands, such as Levi's, H&M, C&A and Gucci, have already abolished sandblasted jeans in their collections. But in the 'global center of fashion', Italian luxury brands like Dolce & Gabbana have yet to publicly ban sandblasting from their supply chains! Thousands of lives are at risk... Join us in calling on Dolce & Gabbana to ban sandblasting.


http://news.change.org/stories/stopping-dolce-and-gabbanas-killer-jeans

[Historic NY]

Psst...your suppose to wear a mask.....

http://compare.ebay.com/like/150639729152?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

i left the shop yesterday because I didn't have an OSHA approved one...they were cleaning up some cast iron frying pans...low pressue.

[eleny]

3. I don't think corporations give a crap about their workers in Bangladesh

[Historic NY]

4. Yeah no shit but its so fashionable to wear them isn't it....

no union shop, nada...free market bs.

[eleny]

7. I remember when dungarees felt like iron

That was back in the 50s and 60s. I'd wash those things to death and they still lasted forever. But getting them soft at the start was a tough job before liquid softener made it to our frugal household.

[Historic NY]

8. Multiple washings.

[madrchsod]

9. you had to wash them before you wore them because of the dye

i wore a new pair of levis and got caught in the rain...my legs were blue!

[eleny]

11. Yipes!

[madrchsod]

12. i would leave them in the washer for an hour to get them wearable...

i really miss wringer washing machines.

[eleny]

13. My mom used to let me pull sheets through the wringer

We had one of those double, cast iron porcelain sinks in the cellar. The wringer washer was next to it and emptied into the deep sink.

The thought of doing a whites laundry with the bleach smell brings back memories.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. I remember when people called jeans "dungarees".

Am I old fashioned, or what? :D

[eleny]

16. Hey, what's old is new again!

:hi:

[virgogal]

1. If we don't buy them the problem is solved.

[glowing]

2. That would be a company for the wealthy. Most people couldnt afford that brand.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Don't pay extra money to make it look like the new thing you bought isn't new... n/t

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. Ummmm......

Wearing a mask - a fairly inexpensive mask - solves that problem.

There are a whole host of folks that wear masks everyday to avoid those very problems. Glass artists. Jewelers. Stone finishers. Many in manufacturing.

There are a lot of better reasons not to buy or wear Dolce & Gabbana jeans.

And, no, I'm not going to boycott art glass or fine jewelry either. And you can be pretty sure those thhird world stone polishers aren't wearing masks either.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. I'm a stone carver and I have seen friends die from silica damaged lungs...it is horrible

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Why aren't they using salt instead of sand?

:shrug: Yeah, I know, they're evil people, they don't care. But it's particularly disgusting when there is some trivially simple workaround that they won't use because it costs another dollar a ton, and that's just too much more than workers' lives are worth.