More US High Schools Opting For Environmentally Friendly Commencement Robes

The Los Angeles Times (6/8, Gordon) reports that "a number of high schools and colleges around California and the nation" are "adopting environmentally friendly graduation garb made from either renewable wood fibers or recycled plastic bottles. The eco-robes being worn at" Animo Venice Charter High School (Venice, CA), "for example, are designed to decompose quickly if graduates decide to discard them. ... Call it social responsibility or savvy marketing, graduation eco-chic was launched this year by several companies and taken up by such California schools as Mills College in Oakland, the University of San Diego, UC Berkeley and Humboldt State."