Maggie's Organic Menagerie Animals - Elephant
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SKU:
MG07
Units in Stock: 2 from Maggie's Organics. This funky elephant is not only cute but helps the environment but keeping 'irregular' socks, tights, scarves etc out of our landfills. Ages Newborn+ More details... |
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Product Details
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These elephants are made from excess fabric and irregulars and stuffed with reclaimed polyester mill scrap. Each animals embroidered details are securely sewn on to make them safe for all ages. Made by Opportunity Threads, a 100% worker-owned co-operative in North Carolina, these animals use pre-consumer polyester mill scrap for the stuffing as it provides the smoothness and loft that the animals need and survives machine washing. As an added benefit, the stuffing comes from a plant in South Carolina reducing it's carbon footprint.
*Since these are made from scrap material, they may be slightly different than the toy pictured in the photo*
Dimensions: ~9" tall
Age Recommendations: Birth+; faces are hand sewn and there a no small parts so this animal is safe for all ages
Materials: Outside: depends on the scrap used but cotton certified organic cotton, Nylon, and possibly spandex. Filling: Post-industrial Polyester fiber (from mill scraps)
Care: Machine wash warm, tumble dry low
Packaging: Cardboard hangtag
Care: Machine washable
Made in USA- Fair Trade Conditions
Certifications: Abides by the American Organic Standards for fiber (Organic Textile Organization); Green America
Company Details:
At Maggie's, we believe that there is no environmental sustainability without social responsibility. It is impossible to separate the environmental concerns of garment production from its social impacts. Many hands contribute to the making of garments: from the farmers who harvest the raw agricultural crops; to the spinners who make the yarn and the knitters who knit the fabric; to the sewers who cut and sew the garments. We believe that every worker is entitled to a safe working environment and an honest day's wages, and also an active voice in their future.
In a world laden with sweatshop labor and unethical treatment of workers, Maggie's offers an alternative. Using a fair trade model, we promote and monitor the practices of our business partners in several ways:
- Requiring full disclosure of working conditions and production standards. Using an annual questionnaire tailored to each prospective contractor and supplier, we demand disclosure of company policies, wages, benefits, and procedures pertaining to sustainability and fair labor practices.
- Making on-site visits. We visit each facility and interview workers as well as management, both before initiating a contract and during our on-going relationship with vendors. To insure that workers rights and needs are respected, we interact with them directly, including interaction with workers independent of management.
- Establishing ongoing relationships with partners to develop environmentally sustainable practices. Maggie's aims to collaborate with partners to constantly improve the ways we manufacture, print, package, market, and more. By inspiring our manufacturers to implement more sustainable and responsible procedures into their businesses, we feel we can really have an impact.
- Supporting Worker-Owned Cooperatives vs. Sweatshops. We choose to support worker-owned cooperatives whenever possible. Today we continue to support The Fair Trade Zone in Nueva Vida, and are also supporting the creation of a spinning cooperative next door to the Fair Trade Zone, which will spin all of its yarn. We recently created a new partnership with a 100% worker-owned cooperative in Costa Rica, which is sewing some of our newer garments. Our latest project is the development a 100% worker-owned cooperative in rural North Carolina, which we hope will be knitting a large number of our socks in the near future.
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