Climate Change Challenge #1
Here's an idea! (From Intrepid Travel)
This is one to remember at January sale time!
Manufacturing and distributing clothes has a significant environmental impact, using much water, energy and land. Cotton in particular requires a lot of water and often also uses large amounts of chemicals. According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, "on average worldwide, every new T-shirt made takes about 1.5 kilograms of chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) to produce."
So only purchase what you need and ideally buy clothes that will last, or even better, consider second hand clothes.
Labels: Climate Change
Here's to that! But is it possible to get more environmentally friendly cotton, or should we be looking at different materials?
Hmm, I wonder if other materials are necessarily any less environmentally-impacting. Cotton is often used as a cash-crop to occupy fields between harvests of food producing crops, and as such plays its part in renewing soils, too.
But yeah, I would agree that only buy what you need! Saves money too :D
Dude, gonna need a reference on that one. Chemical ag never renews soils.
yeah, but cotton was used as a rotation crop before chemical ag (quoting grandparents)