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Overview
10
Things
You Can Do
Clothes
for a
Change
Care
what you wear
 10
Good Reasons
 Campaign
A
Cleaner
Approach
FAQs
Case
Studies
Links
Cleaner
Cotton
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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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