Robison Art is going GREEN!  We have already begun the process of making our printing process safe for our environment and educating and encouraging our clients to make the move with us to sustainable, environment friendly products.

The Plan

Our commitment is for the long term.  We believe we have a responsibility to take care of the environment God gave us and do all within our ability to replenish resources we use and report our findings to our customers and others who can make a difference.

Here is where we are focusing our energy:

Screen Printing Ink | Reducing Waste and Eliminating Phthalates & PVC

T-shirts are most often printed with plastisol inks made from a plastic resin called polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and made flexible by a type of plasticizers known as phthalates. Both PVC and phthalates present health, safety, and environmental risks. We are currently transitioning to phthalate-free inks and preparing to switch to non-PVC inks.

Organic Products

We are now offering organic tees from Anvil. We will continue to add new organic products as they become available. Many of the garment manufacturers we like are adding organic and recycled t-shirts to their product lines.

CPSIA 2008 Compliance

CPSIA 2008 is the best thing to happen to the t-shirt industry. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 or CPSIA 2008, requires testing of all products marketed to or intended to be used by children ages 12 or younger. If a screen printing shop sells youth sizes and adult small or even adult medium sized t-shirts then they fall under this requirement.

Why this is important for all screen printers? Traditionally our industry is very bad at product safety and environmental awareness. We hope this law will set our industry on the correct path to being proactive and responsible when it comes to health, safety and environmental concerns.

Manufacturers

We have a wide choice of garment manufactures to chose from, we could just post them all up on the site, but we pick specific manufacturers based on a variety of factors. We look for the standard mix of quality and availability, they have to be the best quality shirts and we have to be able to get them in for your order.  Less expensive t-shirts are usually lower quality and therefore not considered.

But even after these considerations are taken into account the field of garment manufacturers is still very large. How do we decide? We look to a factor just as important as the quality of the garment, how that company operates it's business. We feel that if a company does not take care of its employees and the environment, how can it make a quality product?

We look into the practices of each manufacturer and choose based on that manufacturers commitment to environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility. View our page about garment manufacturers and why we picked them