Nanamoms

I'm not an activist either but the one thing I do know is my allergy doctor advised me NOT to use plastic of any kind if I could avoid it. He told me it "outgases" and drinking water or eating food stored in it can affect your immune system and cause allergy issues. I have extreme allergy issues and I have to wear only cotton fabric...talk about it being hard to find 100% cotton clothes!! I don't know what processes the batting goes thru but that might something you would want to research a little deeper. JMHO!! I do try to do my part in keeping our earth clean!!

sewbeadit

Isn't fleece made of recycled bottles?

ckcowl

i love Dream Green for kids quilts- it holds up very well to lots of abuse & frequent laundering- is nice to work with- no fumes, no lint and is nice (in my mind) that a company is finding a use for plastic bottles- they need to be used for something-instead of just filling landfills- and the batting is alot like using fleece- except it is easier to stitch through.

ckcowl

yes, some of it is- especially the nice, expensive wind proof fleeces- and arctic fleece- same materials, same process- another good use for plastic-
plastic is not going to go away= i think it is great when new uses are found- fleece clothing and quilt batting is much less likely to wind up in a landfill somewhere.

huntpeter

Plastic bags are much hazardous for us and can't be degrade in a natural way. The only way to get rid of them is recycling. Plastic can be recycled to make wind proof and waterproof fabric like raincoats, quilts, etc.

quilticing

Reusing all those plastic bottles still seems like a good idea for the time being (until something better comes along). Dream Green is what I use a lot (when you don't need a higher loft). Fifty or 100 years from now they'll do something with our worn out quilts that hopefully will benefit the environment at that time.

patchsamkim

Having always used cotton batting, or wool batting, I wonder about the batting made from recycled plastic. I especially wonder about the comfort of sleeping under it. Polyester batting isn't comfortable for me to sleep under...I sweat too much, the batting can't breathe. I wonder if it would be the same with the recycled plastic batting. I think I will keep using the cotton and wool.

lisalovesquilting

It doesn't sound very comfortable does it? But actually it is very soft. I've used it and like it. My first choice is usually Warm and Natural.

delma_paulk

I read what everyone has said about this batting; my only concern is that breathing in this with usage of a quilt may and I say MAY cause damage to your lungs. I am currently in treatment for a lung problem that the drs cannot say what has caused this problem. Was it the cotton spray used on our crops when I was a child and had to pick cotton by hand ? Was it the spray on the peanuts we used to plow up and shake the dirt off by hand and then stack them, peanuts and vines were shaken and then thrown up on a stack; was it the crop sprayers who came over and we went outside to wave at them???? No one knows. I also worked in a thread mill, breathed in knitting thread dust.

Please consider your own and mostly YOUR CHILDREN's future health as you consider what to use in your home and especially in your bedding. It is not easy to have short breath, hard to walk more than 6 mins, hard to use my quilter and sew the tops. People look at you strangely when you used a handicapped parking place, you get out and look as if nothing is wrong with you......breathing is very important to me now.

delma