tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29998835941731048522024-02-15T20:34:18.897-08:00Golf Refugees - A square peg in a round holeIrreverent golf brand for the environmental age.
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carbon neutral organic cotton polo shirts and t-shirts for indie minded golfers.THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.comBlogger1169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-36453835496166576792018-06-01T17:00:00.002-07:002018-06-01T17:00:59.696-07:00MICROPLASTIC ACTION PLAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The dramatic increase of microfibres in our rivers and coastal waters represents an alarming environmental and public health issue,” said Sen. Kennedy. “Most consumers are not aware of how clothing fibres and microscopic pieces of plastic lint from synthetic fabrics are poisoning our waterways and our food supply. Clothing manufacturers cannot continue to deny responsibility for the economic, environmental and public health costs of microplastic pollution. We need to engage the apparel industry to help develop a consumer awareness and microfibre reduction action plan.”<br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /></span></span></span></div>
THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-75091882878737019402018-05-16T15:42:00.000-07:002018-05-16T15:42:04.854-07:00POLYESTER APPAREL IS A PLASTIC POLLUTANT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polyester apparel is a single wash plastic pollutant, even when it is recycled polyester.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although our synthetic clothes cannot be described as 'single use plastics'. They do shed thousands of microplastics from a single wash. We must therefore include our synthetic clothes in discussions regarding plastic pollution. Polyester is the dominant fibre in the fashion industry, with a 60% market share and forecast to increase over the next decade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sportswear requires frequent washing and made solely from plastic fibres. As an interim measure we are trying persuade gov<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">erning bodies of sport, sportswear brands sponsored clubs and individual star athletes to use a filter when washing their plastic kit. This measure will help reduce the number of microplastics washed into the ocean from laundering our synthetic clothes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Golf Refugees are also hoping to work with the UK Fashion & Textile organisation to develop a new washing care symbol for a 'filter wash' to be included on synthetic clothing label<br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Around 16% of the plastic produced annually in the world consists of textile fibres. Synthetic clothing is responsible for endless amounts of microfibres which can even be found in drinking water.<br />
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An earlier French study showed that plastic microfibres are not just in outdoor air, they are also present inside buildings and in particular in dust on the floor. An analysis of fibres in the air shows that 29% is plastic. Research has already shown that people breathe in microfibres. Indoors it is babies that crawl on the floor, who breathe in the most fibres.<br />
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workers who handle plastic textile fibres are known to suffer from many types of lung disease, from coughing to limited lung capacity;<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From a single kit sponsorship deal with a Premiership football club. Adidas predict sales of replica shirts, over the ten year duration of the contract, to exceed £1.5 billion. At £50 per replica shirt, this translates to 3 million shirt sales per annum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This represents a potential shedding of 12,400 microfibres from a single wash of a single replica polyester football shirt.- Plymouth University research data</span></div>
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If you wash the 3 million replica football shirts once per week. Adidas are potentially generating 37,200,000,000 microfibres per week, from just a single club sponsorship deal.</div>
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To try and imagine this figure, it corresponds to the number of cells you have in your body.</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;">This is why we are asking sportswear brands to direct their sponsored clubs to use a filter when washing their polyester kit. To help reduce billions of microplastics from reaching the oceans.</span><br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /><br /></span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-31400452270172816432017-10-23T10:41:00.000-07:002017-10-23T10:41:24.055-07:00A BETTER FOOTBALL SHIRT 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2018 there will be the 21 st FIFA Football (Soccer) World Cup being held in Russia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No doubt all of the leading sportswear brands will be supplying teams with polyester kit that shed thousands of plastic microfibres when washed. <br /><br />A single wash of an average size machine load (6 kg) of polyester can shed 496,030 microfibres, according to research by Plymouth University. Just imagine how many ocean polluting plastic microfibres are shed during the entire season? There must be a better football shirt?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are calling out to fashion schools, individual designers and organisations / brands that represent particular fibres to create 'a better football shirt'. A better football shirt for the player and the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And where former and present professional footballers can judge the submitted designs for 'a better football shirt'.</span><span class="_5afx" style="cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/abetterfootballshirt?source=feed_text&story_id=10155862783473330" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">abetterfootballshirt</span></a><br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /></span></span><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-68530733062215356702017-05-04T09:20:00.001-07:002017-05-04T09:20:56.223-07:00YOUR NHS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CdKsjf5t9Fk" width="480"></iframe>THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-43154244933005164642017-02-14T08:44:00.003-08:002017-02-14T08:44:58.851-08:00MODERN SPORTSWEAR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When discussing sportswear you are really talking about polyester. An established sports brand using 120 kg of polyester (including recycled polyester) annually, will shed from washing their garments once a week; 728 million plastic microfibres per year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This simple calculation undermines any statements that sportswear brands are sustainable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Microfibres are the biggest ocean polluting issue you've never heard of.<br />#sportswearunsustainable #plasticoceanpollution #polyestermicrofibres<br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-53892311238771363902017-01-18T07:35:00.003-08:002017-01-18T07:35:44.151-08:00SAVE THE K SIGNATURE BALL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Could someone (group) place a large order for these balls with Nassau and supply again via another retailer? Golf Refugees have a quote from the manufacturer, we will see if this quote is still valid. <br /><br />There could be other manufacturers who produce a tour-spec 3 / 4 - piece ball. MyGolf Spy could ask and test these to see which is best and comparable to the performance of the Korean Nassau / Kirkland ball.<br /></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9pnbl-0-0"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our idea would be for a 'consumer ball'. Where the packaging could depict images from people who place orders. <br />#kirklandsignature #consumerball #golfrefugees <span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chelsea football club are in their final year of a kit deal with Adidas, before starting a new £60 million per season shirt sponsorship with Nike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we thought we’d ask them a couple of simple questions regarding their football shirts;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What material(s) are this seasons authentic & replica Chelsea football shirts made from?</span></div>
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Will they shed any plastic microfibres when washed?</div>
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Thank you for your email to Chelsea Customer Services. I can confirm that the authentic shirt is exactly the same shirt that the players will wear during matches these shirts are made of slightly higher quality materials than the replicas. The authentic shirts are also much tighter than the replica and are designed to be skin tight.</div>
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The replica shirts are as the name suggests a replica of the shirts that the players wear. These are designed for fans that will not necessarily require all the technology in the authentic shirts, they are also a looser fit than the authentic shirts so may be a more comfortable option.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scientists have shown for the first time that the ingestion of polyester textile microfibres can prove fatal to freshwater zooplankton – an integral part of the early-stage food chain for many different aquatic species. This research backs up other reports published that show how oceanic synthetic textile microfibres can also accumulate hazardous pollutants, which adsorb to their large, fibrous surface areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which poses the question; Should our sport stars be wearing and promoting polyester clothing?</span><span class="_5afx" style="cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/zooplanktonlivesmatter?source=feed_text&story_id=10154778558218330" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">zooplanktonlivesmatter</span></a><br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /></span></span><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Research has revealed that 52% of all fabric on Earth—from underwear to yoga pants—is made of synthetic (plastic) fibres. And the trend is towards more synthetic fabric, not less, which means more shedding of microfibres into the environment, more plastic in fish and more plastic in us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In sectors such as sportswear, which requires frequent washing, plastic synthetic fibres are already the dominant fibre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've also learned that the best estimate for how many of these plastic microfibres are currently in the oceans is about 1.4 million trillion. In fact, microfibres are the single largest (by count) contributor to plastic pollution in our waters, because of their size and availability to living things, they’re a really big deal.<br />#sportswear #microfibres #plasticoceanpollution</span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-19632301653097527602016-10-25T16:23:00.002-07:002016-10-25T16:23:57.761-07:00A BETTER WAY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sport is meant to be a healthy pursuit, we want our kids to play sport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there must be a better way than clothing them in plastic, where shirts contain hidden carcinogens and hormone disruptor chemicals. If that's not enough, when you come to wash these polyester shirts they each shed up to 19,000 microfibre particles, which are mistaken for food my marine life and end up in our own food chain. The oceans are being turned into a plastic smog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would argue leading sportswear brands have turned sport into a human and environmental wasteland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There must be a better way forward than this.</span><br />
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-15902427427443620142016-10-14T13:27:00.000-07:002016-10-14T13:27:21.937-07:00I DON'T WANT TO GO TO CHELSEA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Chelsea has signed a new kit deal with US sportswear giant Nike.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">The deal is reported to be worth £60 million a season for the next 15 years.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I wonder if the young female textile workers received a pay rise?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Nike will produce strips for the first team, academy and ladies teams, as well as replica kit and clothing for the club's fans.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Like most large Premier League football clubs Chelsea is looking to expand its fan, and commercial, base into areas such as East and South East </span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asia, and also North America.<br /><br />Is manufacturing and promoting more polyester sport shirts around the world, which shed plastic microfibre particles every time they are washed, a good idea?<br /><br />Our oceans and marine life are reaching a tipping point with plastic ocean pollution.<br /><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nike?source=feed_text&story_id=10154646585118330" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">Nike</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/plasticoceanpollution?source=feed_text&story_id=10154646585118330" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">plasticoceanpollution</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/polyester?source=feed_text&story_id=10154646585118330" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">polyester</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/sportswear?source=feed_text&story_id=10154646585118330" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">sportswear</span></span></a> </span><span class="_5afx" style="cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/chelsea?source=feed_text&story_id=10154646585118330" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">chelsea</span></a><br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</span></span></span></span></div>
THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-69035932563645869182016-09-29T15:09:00.002-07:002016-09-29T15:09:46.078-07:00NEED TO KNOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is cheap to use toxic petrochemicals, and expensive to reformulate products so they aren't toxic. Removing a carcinogen or hormone disruptor from a shampoo, or fragrance, or sport shirt, or lipstick, or laundry detergent, and replacing it with a safer chemical is expensive. “Too expensive,” say the brands, and so far, governments haven’t found a way to force them to take out the toxins.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To make matters worse, companies don’t have to disclose dangerous chemicals on product labels. Why don’t companies want us to know all the ingredients that go into their products? The answer is simple: they’re afraid of losing a sale. If you knew there were toxic chemicals in something you bought every day, you would stop buying it - JW<br />
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-3085836528381150392016-09-20T15:50:00.000-07:002016-09-20T15:50:13.131-07:00WHY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I buy a bright yellow sport shirt; it will inform me of the main fabric material, where it is manufactured and how to wash it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I buy just a bright yellow textile dye from the same shop; it will disclose a list of the all chemicals in the synthetic dye and has a toxic warning symbol on the packaging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can buy the synthetic dye, the anti-bacterial textile finish, the moisture-wicking textile finish all separately; these individual textile products disclose the chemicals they use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you combine all of the textile products to produce a brightly coloured, moisture-wicking, anti-bacterial sport shirt; you don't have to disclose a single chemical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why?<br /></span><span class="_5afx" style="cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">#Disclosure<br />
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-24446571860275525942016-09-13T14:56:00.002-07:002016-09-13T14:56:18.454-07:00EVIAN CHAMPIONSHIP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking forward to The Evian Championship, women's golf fifth major. Hey Evian; A plastic water bottle, for example, takes roughly 450 years to disintegrate. Just a thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pictures posted on social media from star players greeted with their own plastic water bottles. Contents may only last a few minutes, golfers tens of years and the plastic bottle hundreds of years. It doesn't add up.</span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-59279918415654179562016-09-05T05:30:00.002-07:002016-09-05T05:30:41.747-07:00LAST TO KNOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Numerous consumer products contain hidden carcinogens and hormone disruptor chemicals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of the most popular brands refuse to disclose the use of these hazardous substances to their customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They argue that the low doses used in any individual product are safe. However, this conveniently ignores the cumulative effect, as we all use multiple products each and every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is the solution?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Persuading leading brands to 'disclose' is incredibly difficult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How about persuading brands who do not use carcinogens to state the following on their labels and packaging;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Carcinogen free' or 'Does not contain any cancer causing chemicals.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This way products which state no information on carcinogens and hormone disruptor chemicals by default can be seen to use these hidden chemicals.<br />
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-15403583386524903612016-08-25T05:48:00.002-07:002016-08-25T08:32:47.700-07:00DEAR CUSTOMER SERVICES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dear Sustainability Adidas Group,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rio was a great Olympics to watch and the performance of Team GB truly inspiring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have just purchased an Adidas Team GB Golf Climachill polo shirt to celebrate Justin Rose gold medal, from the label I can see it is made from 100% polyester fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can you please advise when I wash this polyester polo shirt will it shed any microfibre 'plastic' particles? I have read in the media that these microfibres contribute towards plastic ocean pollution and can even enter human food chain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As a slightly concerned customer who loves eating seafood. Are Adidas working on any technology to prevent this from happening in the near future?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I look forward to your reply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kind regards,</span><br />
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-33825284982004551762016-08-17T06:33:00.000-07:002016-08-17T07:18:15.465-07:00THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Three easy ways to encourage younger people to play golf;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Use their mobiles / ipads on the course for selfies and tweets etc</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Allow alcohol and spliffs on the course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"more weed less weedkiller" - Golf Refugees<br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</span></span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-70001577997423298762016-08-05T13:44:00.001-07:002016-08-05T13:44:13.174-07:00FESS UP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that Nike Golf and Adidas Golf are just going to concentrate on apparel, here are some facts they sometimes forget to tell their customers;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polyester is a plastic and when you wash polyester based apparel it sheds microfibre plastic particles which pollute our oceans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from plastic in our oceans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Virtually every piece of plastic (including the first polyester sport shirt) that was ever made still exists in some shape or form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It takes 500-1,000 years for plastic to degrade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plastic chemicals can be absorbed by the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of these chemicals found in plastic have been found to alter hormones in humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may ask why Nike, Adidas and many others prefer to use polyester?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polyester is the least expensive fibre to manufacture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What does all this mean for you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your next polyester sport shirt will last between 500 -1,000 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the chemicals used to make your plastic sport shirt (which apparel brands hide from you) can be absorbed through your skin and potentially alter your hormone levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each time you wash your polyester sport shirt it will shed microfibre particles which contribute to plastic ocean pollution and kill sea birds and marine mammals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you enjoy eating fish and other sea food, microplastic particles from your own polyester sport shirts can end up on your plate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enjoy.<br /><span style="color: #999999;">ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>
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THE GOLF REFUGEES WEBLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01066000048905545278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999883594173104852.post-65701497195732447752016-08-03T15:53:00.001-07:002016-08-03T15:53:08.836-07:00PULL OUT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few months ago Adidas announced it was pulling out of the golf equipment business to focus solely on apparel and footwear. And now Nike have pulled the plug on golf balls, bags and clubs too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The business model and huge profit margins on making plastic 'polyester' apparel with ultra low wages in countries with little or no environmental regulations is hard to beat. Especially when you think consumers have little or no idea they are buying a plastic shirt that will last for several hundred years, shed microplastic particles each time they are washed, polluting the oceans and even entering our food chain. Do we really think its a good idea for aquatic life to feed on plastic? Then we need to stop laundering our plastic polyester shirts until Adidas and Nike spend some of their enormous profits on a finding a solution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unsustainable and totally irresponsible business practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Golf is very conservative. Equipment rules have failed to restrain the pros and at the same time ignore the vast majority of players. You can't have the same equipment rules for professional players and recreational golfers, who have limited time to play and practice, and who need the latest technology to maximise their enjoyment of the game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There has been a stagnation is 'real' improvements in golf equipment for past 25 years. Over the past ten years consumers have finally realised the claims of an extra few yards from the latest driver launch is just marketing spin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With two of the biggest brands in sport pulling out of golf equipment, even the governing bodies of golf should realise they need to do something. They should immediately announce an 'unrestricted' category for golf equipment, preferably based upon using recycled and biodegradable materials. Encourage the engineers to dream again and persuade Adidas and Nike their is a bright future for golf equipment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#golfrefugees #golfequipment</span><br />
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