The American Reusable Textile Association offers an effective voice in promoting user- and environment-friendly solutions to industry’s need for textile products. ARTA’S mission—“To create greater appreciation and acceptance for reusable textiles”—is not undertaken in a vacuum. Its impetus comes from an adversary with strong financial capability but weak logic in a waste-burdened society. Disposable products may seem convenient to use, but their impact on the environment poses increasingly threatening problems.

Therefore, ARTA has embarked on a program to:

• HELP its member makers of reusable textile products achieve an equal footing with disposable products as regulated by the Medicare Program and the Medical Device Act. Objective achieved.
• PREVENT disposables from slipping past Federal Drug Administration performance standards. Objective achieved.
• OFFER an education program through seminars, publications and trade shows to facilitate ideas and promote the exchange of ideas beneficial to the industry. Objective on-going.
• SCHEDULE meetings with government officials concerning issues of interest to members. Objective on-going.

ARTA invites any company or individual interested in supporting the reusable textile industry to join the association.