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Ethical Issues – Cotton – Why It Fails The Ethical Consumer Test

Like me many people committed to supporting the fair trade industry aren’t aware of the ethical issues around cotton production. Issues such as land use, irrigation, exploitation of workers and the use of pesticides. Conventional cotton is literally destroying the environment and affecting the health and well being of millions of workers throught the world. With fantastic alternatives like bamboo and hemp now readily available its time for all us ethical consumers to vote with our wallets.

Cotton is a massive industry. Cotton crops cover over 5% of the world’s cultivated land and account for 16% of the pesticides used globally...

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Hemp Clothing Is The Eco-friendly Alternative To Cotton

 

Hemp Clothing Is The Eco-friendly Alternative To CottonHemp Clothing Is The Eco-friendly Alternative To Cotton

Hemp is an amazing plant to make clothing out of for many reasons, one of them being its sustainability as a crop. Hemp is also 100{fa32f3da1db87532d93af57bebf07259016720c780c92cd8735931dd04d79e41} bio-degradable so the products made from it will decompose if put in a landfill or other composting process, avoiding harm to the environment. An acre of industrial hemp can yield up to 6 tons of usable fiber in just 3 to 4 months of growing time.

Hemp conserves a large amount of trees through paper production. Hemp based paper is of high quality and has good durability when compared to paper made from trees. One acre of hemp will produce the equivalent of four acres of trees in paper and do it with much faster cycles...

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