Cotton

What is eco-fashion or sustainable fashion?  It is fashion that makes less of an impact on this beautiful planet of ours. I will be addressing and highlighting the benefits of several fabrics that you can look for in this blog.

First and foremost, organic cotton.  Conventional cotton is one of the largest contributors to polluting our earth with chemicals. It is the second most heavily sprayed crop in the world. 25% of the worlds use of insecticides and 10% of the worlds pesticides are used on cotton crop. A quarter to a half pound of pesticides are in a typical non-organic cotton tee shirt. Pesticides contain chloride compounds, which become a dioxin when airborne, a cancer causing carcinogen. These agents can affect the lungs of everyone from field workers to consumers of finished product.

Cotton is currently the only fiber that can be Certified Organic, I would imagine they started with this one because of the devastating impact it is making.