Eco-friendly:
Environmentally friendly (also eco-friendly, nature friendly, and green) are terms used to refer to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies claimed to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment.
Eco-friendly jute product:
Jute, the Golden fiber as commonly known, is the second most important fiber after cotton because of its cheap pricing and eco-friendly attributes which is partially a textile fiber and partially a wood, it falls under the category of Ligno-cellulosic fiber.
High moisture absorption capacity, flexibility and drainage properties are the features characterizing jute as an eco-friendly fiber and so jute products are considered as ecologically acceptable by the environmentalists. Advantages enjoyed by jute products over other fibers are abundant availability and bio-degradable properties.
The trade the history of jute products can be traced back to the 17th century i.e. during the British rule. For centuries jute has been associated with flexible packaging, specially sacks, shopping bags and coarse door mats. In today’s date multiple and versatile jute products are creating a global market, saving after it lost to synthetic packaging during the 1970s.
The range of jute has increased in manifold and it spread from the packaging industry to the fashion industry. Designer sarees, salwar-kameezes, jewelries, jute apparels and foot wears are the new incarnations of the traditional jute products. Jute-blended carpets and rugs, decorative wall-hangings and tapestries, garden pot hangings, decorative hand bags, bed spreads, cushion covers, shopping bags, etc, .The range of jute products is ever increasing and under continuous improvisation.
The increasing popularity of the jute products is basically for its low cost and never compromises with quality and fashion which makes it easily accessible to the poor citizenry.
The gorgeously embroidered jute apparels can make nice replicas of silk and can give the other fiber industries a run for money.
Recently developed food grade jute bags and cloth called Hydrocarbon free jute bags conforming to international standard specifications. These bags and cloth have a large demand in export markets for packing cocoa beans, coffee beans, shelled nuts and other food products. Furniture is the latest forthcoming area in the domain of jute products.
