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Cleaner Cotton

Overview

The Sustainable Cotton Project is committed to promoting fair trade organic and sustainable cotton clothes. We are helping to build a large network of consumer activists, designers, students, labor unions, farmers, social and economic justice groups, clothing manufactures, and environmentalists to increase consumer demand for organic and sustainable cotton apparel in our communities, companies and campuses.

More and more people are demanding products made without exploitative labor – fair made, not sweatshop made. With pressure already upon the garment industry for fair labor policies, why continue to support the use of toxic fibers within the workplace.
Over the past decade, you may have heard some of the reports citing conventional cotton farming as one of agriculture’s most environmentally destructive activities. The simple act of growing and harvesting the one pound of cotton fiber needed to make a T-shirt takes an enormous toll on the air, water, and soil, not to mention the health of people living and working in cotton country.

In response, a small number of farmers and manufactures have pioneered the market for organically grown and sustainable cotton, producing fibers and clothing while significantly reducing toxic chemicals. There can be enough organic cotton produced annually to accommodate demand – the big gap is the U.S. market, which means educating consumers and creating consumer demand!

Check out our Tool Kit, a resource packet of information you can use right away – please feel free to copy and distribute the Tool Kit to your friends, family, church, company, neighborhood stores, professors, etc. The list of companies and colleges using organic cotton fibers increases every day thanks to people continuing to educate companies about the negative impacts of conventional cotton! Search the web for “organic cotton” and you will find numerous companies selling all kinds of organic products.

Thank you for your continued commitment to socially and environmentally conscious clothing. With your participation, we hope to achieve the critical mass necessary to redirect the future of the world’s favorite natural fiber.

 

   

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