100% cotton. 0% polyester.
Your clothes should not be made of plastic.
Most clothing today is polyester — a petroleum-based fabric that sheds plastic microfibers in every wash. CottonTruth makes 230 GSM heavyweight tees in 100% cotton. No blends. No synthetics. No greenwashing.
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The lineup
One tee. 16 colors. Zero polyester.
Every shirt is the same 230 GSM heavyweight 100% cotton tee, pre-shrunk, in 16 colorways. Product photos pending — swatches approximate the colorway (TODO B-104).
Why cotton
Polyester is plastic. We don't sell plastic.
The claims below are the verifiable ones. Sources listed; no certifications we haven't earned, no invented statistics.
~35%
of ocean microplastics come from synthetic textiles
Laundering synthetic fabrics releases microplastic fibers that reach rivers and oceans. Washing a polyester garment can release hundreds of thousands of fibers per cycle.
Sources: IUCN 2017 report on primary microplastics in the oceans; published washing-machine studies
~60%
of clothing produced is polyester or similar synthetics
Polyester overtook cotton decades ago. Most "performance" fabric is plastic with better marketing.
Sources: Textile Exchange Preferred Fiber & Materials reports
200+
years for polyester to break down
Every polyester garment ever made still exists in some form. Cotton is a plant fiber — it biodegrades.
Sources: NOAA / marine debris program estimates