Contributions are the small actions that create a big change as a whole. In the category of Environmental Awareness and Issues, we explore how small action plans from local organizations could make our community a better place. Simple deeds of benevolence for family, friends, or neighbors, creating a continuous cycle of compassion that enhances our environment. In this project, we delve into one of these organizations: Creative Tech Textile Company. Despite being a small local company and facing adversities like high cost and unstable markets, they are determined to use their minor strength and guide our society into sustainability. Utilizing their specialty in textile industries, they change Taiwanese society through people's clothing. Along with making the material eco-friendly, they also enhance the comfort, increasing citizen life quality. Overall, Creative Tech Textile Company contributes to our society by reducing pollution and waste in production and improving product quality. We are willing to share and promote their action plans so that their efforts could be seen and spread.
As the first company in the world to use recycled oyster shells as a material for clothing, Creative Tech Textile has contributed significantly to not only Taiwan’s economy, but the sustainability of our beloved planet. By recycling oyster shells, the company helps reduce a major environmental issue: oyster shell piling. This issue poses negative effects, like severe odor, marine ecosystem disruption, and even soil contamination. Not only so, products like down jackets require plucking the fur of living ducks, which harms innocent animals. Thus, by utilizing grinded oyster shell powder, Creative Tech Textile saves the lives of livestock animals with the added bonus of warm insulation. Additionally, Creative Tech Textile aims to urge people together to preserve our precious environment. Since it was founded, Creative Tech Textile has worked with multiple local and international companies, like Uniqlo, to manufacture products through its unique technology of nano-grinding oyster shells. These collaborations brought the goal of reducing oyster shell piles to the global stage, raising environmental awareness among more communities. In fact, consumers can help with solving environmental issues by simply purchasing products from those companies. Alone, we are insignificant and negligible; together, we are steady and impactful.